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infected thofe counties fir? It is already gone #00 
far in Wiltfhire; and thofe who have attempted to 
ftem the torrent of fafhion, by introducing the 
South-Down fheep, deferve the thanks of the land-. 
owners of the county. 
Overploughing and underftocking, in high ex- 
pofed fituations, and particularly where the land is 
light and loofe, muft always produce bad effects; 
and thefe are the natural confequences of keeping 
flocks of fheep for deauty, in countries where they 
ought to be kept entirely for w/e. 
Ujfe of water-meadows.—The water-meadows of 
Wiltfhire, and the neighbouring counties, are a 
branch of hufbandry that can never be too much 
recommended. 
In fpeaking of water-meadows, it has been often 
objected, that they are local; and that there are 
many parts of the kingdom in which they neither 
can be made, nor are they necefjary if they could be made. 
There are, undoubtedly, many parts of the king- 
dom in which water-meadows cannot be made; but 
nobody will deny, but that there are thou/ands of 
fituations where they could be made, in which they 
have never been tried. And as for their ufe, it may 
be ftrongly fufpected, that thofe who deny it have 
never been in Wiltfhire zz ‘he month of April. Let 
thofe who call it in queftion point out a fubftitute 
on which a farmer can, with equal certainty, depend 
for the fuftenance of his flock in that ¢rying month. 
Whatever 
