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to the pinch, rather than fuftain fuch injury, (from 
a temporary fcarcity of probably not more than fix 
weeks, from about the middle of April to the latier 
end of May, and which is generally experienced once 
in four or five years, and of late more frequently) 
he will feed down his natural grafles, otherwife al- 
lotted for the fcythe only; rather than depreciate a 
{tock he may have been fome years raifing to an 
high pitch of excellence, he will turn them in on his 
clovers, ray, and other artificial grafles, all procured at 
great expence; but which, on difficult upland farms, 
fhould a dry feafon fucceed, even in the partial de- 
gree often experienced, will be of comparatively 
little value. Whereby not only the quantity of fum- 
mer food in grafs, neceflary to the maintenance of 
an appropriated ftock, but that alfo intended as hay 
for their winter fupport, will be greatly depreciated 
and leffened; while his wheat after clover, and bar- 
ley after turnips, will both be involved in the con- 
fequences, and in a fimilar proportion be difparaged 
and leffened alfo. During fuch diftrefs, he will not 
deem even his now growing fine field of early-fown 
wheat as facred, and unapproachable; although he 
knows that, on fhallow foils, nothing can be more 
injurious than feeding it in the early fpring months. 
While he contemplates the mal-influence of the 
above encroachments extending itfelf to the minuteft 
ramification of his arrangements, and fapping the 
foundation of his projeéts for future enlarged crops, 
by 
