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It is not only the moft valuadle, but the moft per 
manent of all improvements in hufbandry. It not 
only improves the land on which it is made, but 
makes all the adjoining land better by its produce; 
and it differs zm one very material ref[pe, from all 
otber improvements that a landlord can make for a 
tenant; that is to fay, that time will even make it 
beiter, and that the carelef{nefs of a tenant cannot make 
at much worfe. 
IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED. 
THE apparent errors in the ftock and hufbandry 
of South-Wiltfhire have been fo often mentioned 
in the courfe of the foregoing obfervations, that it 
is unneceffary to repeat, at length, the arguments 
that oe been ufed to prove that they really ave 
‘‘ errors.” A brief recital of them will be fufficient. 
Errors in flock.—The errors in ftock may be re- 
duced .to one general caufe, viz. “ the pride or 
“* vanity of poffeffing large, handfome animals. 
1ft. Error in foeep flock.—As to fheep in particu- 
Jar, this pride of ftock, however commendable, and 
however profitable it may be in countries that are 
adapted to it, does not feem at all fuited to the 
bleak hills of Wiltfbire. 
“ Warmth and fhelter are as neceflary to pro- 
* duce perfea fymmetry i in the parts of an animal, 
bs as 
