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The farmer of one hundred and fifty, or two 
hundred pounds a year, will, perhaps, be able, in 
confequence of having his land put in large pieces, 
to reduce his number of horfes one-third; he will 
be able to fow clover, faintfoin, &c. for hay, and 
raife turnips and rape for winter food for his fheep; 
of courfe he will not only be enabled to increafe 
his flock, but to winter them at home; and though, 
by this mode of hufbandry, he muft reduce his 
number of acres of corn, yet he will, by his addi- 
tional number of fheep, be able to dung his land fo 
much better, that he will raife more grain than he. 
did before. 
Not fo with the occupier of twenty pounds a 
year upon Wiltfhire downs. He will certainly have 
the conveniency of having his land brought toge- 
ther in fewer pieces. But as it feldom happens, 
that he could plough his land with fewer than three 
horfes before fuch a divifion, neither can he now do 
with lefs. He has no inclofed pafture to put thefe 
horfes in, nor common to turn them ogF His right 
on the downs being too fmall to make it warth 
his while to take an allotment for a fheep-down, 
(of perhaps /wenty acres, two miles from home) he 
takes an increafe to his arable land in the fields near 
home in lieu of it. But now he can keep no /heep 
on this allotment, nor would it be worth his while 
to employ a /Lepherd for fo few, if hecould. With- 
wut focep be cannot dung his land, becaufe having 
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