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teady Iaid down, are remarkably fweet-feeding 
ground, and in that ftate of hufbandry the coun- 
try would ftill be calculated for feeding fheep, but 
not on a folding fyftem. The long-wooled theep, 
either the Cotfwold or the Leicefterfhire, are pecu- 
liarly proper for fuch kind of land, where a part 
might be always in pafture, and the arable land 
kept in that kind of hufbandry that would produce 
green winter crops. 
In thofe parts of the country where the land is 
light and dry, the fheep-fold fyftem might ftill be 
ufed.. The large farmers would be much better 
able to fupport a flock than they now are, by lay- 
ing down the wet parts of their land to pafture, and 
fowing fainfoin on the dry and poor parts; and the 
fmall farmers, whofe arable land required folding, 
would find their account much more in taking in 
fheep from the down farms ‘to eat their green win- 
ter food, than by keeping {mall flocks of their own. 
Tt has been already remarked, that notwithftand- 
ing the dairy fyftem is fo well underftood, and is fo 
very profitable in this diftrict, there is, neverthelefs, 
a ftrong propenfity, in many parts of it, to grazing 
cattle. It is undoubtedly for the intereft of the 
community, that cattle fhould be* grazed fome- 
where; but it alfo is their intereft, and ftill more 
fo the intereft of every individual, to apply his land © 
to the purpefes for which nature defigned it. Na- 
ture never defigned many parts of this diftrict, and 
particularly 
