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BENEFICIAL PRACTICES. 
Tus only praétices in the hufbandry of this dif- 
trict, that are likely to be of fervice elfewhere, are 
thofe which will apply to /imilar foils and fituations in 
other diftricts under worfe management: or, in other 
_words, if there are any practices, which are the 
means of enabling tenants to raife a greater amount 
of valuable produce in /his diftrict, than tenants 
can do on fimilar foils and fituations in another dif- 
trict, under a different management, thofe pra€tices 
fhould be introduced into the latter. 
It is a fact, that the hills of Wiltfhire are rented 
remarkably high, when compared with the high lands 
of Hampfhire, Dorfetfhire, and Gloucefterfhire, 
even in thofe parts of the county that are not im- 
mediately affected by markets. 
Thofe counties were once under the fame general 
kind of management as Wilts, with refpect to the 
fheep-fold; and even in many parts of Hampshire 
and Dorfetfhire, there are water-meadows equally 
good with thofe of Wiltfhire. 
It remains then to be enquired, what are the cuf- 
toms once poffefled by all thefe counties, but which 
_ Wiltthire alone has retained? 
_ Ufe of the foeep-fold.—This cuftom appears to be 
* the ufe of the fheep-fold;” and that not merely to 
_ keep the foeep from running away in the night, but with 
a view to manure the land. 
The “ pride of fheep ftock,’? which muft in- 
evitably tend to the fubverfion of the fheep-fold, 
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