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total preelufion that a common flock makes to any 
improvement of foecp frock, the difficulty, and in fome 
inftances, the impoffibility of raifing fufficient bay 
or green winter food for the ftock; and particularly 
the very great expence and trouble, and the addi- 
tional number of 4or/es neceffary, in occupying 
lands in detached and difperfed fituations. 
Advaniages to be derived from its Abolition. 
The advantages to be neceflarily derived from 
an abolition of thefe impediments to good hufban- 
dry, need not be enlarged upon; they fpeak for 
themfelves: but it muft be remarked, that, in many 
parts of this diftrict, thefe advantages apply much 
more forcibly to the cafe of the great farmer, than 
of the {mall one. 
It has been already remarked, that the com- 
monable lands of this diftrict confift ufually of 
three or four arable fields, a common fheep-down, 
fometimes a common cow-down, and in fome in- 
ftances, a common meadow. The cuftom of a 
divifion has been, to give every land-owner an al- 
lotment of arable land in one or more of the fields, 
a fheep-down as near the arable land as poffible, 
and a portion of the common meadows, if there are 
any. But of thee, it is eldom thought neceflary to 
inclofe any but the common meadows, and perhaps 
a {mall part of the arable neay home. 
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