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arable part of the farm into feven inclofures of 
equal fize, being the number required for the moft 
approved courfe of crops, allowing two or three 
fmaller patches near home for odd purpofes. 
The fences are ufually dry ftone walls, good quar- 
ries of which are generally very handy. Quick 
hedges are fometimes planted, but the attention 
and time required to raife them isa great objection. 
In one or two inftances they have been planted 
within fide the walls with great fuccefs—it is a pity 
the practice is not more general. 
Population is {uppofed to have increafed on thefe 
hills of late years, and it is generally believed that 
inclofures, by finding more employment, tend very 
much to promote, at leaft, ufeful population. The 
{mall-pox frequently makes great ravages in the 
country—it is a pity a general inoculation did not 
take place every five or fix years, which would be 
a great faving in expence to the different parifhes, 
as wellas the preferving many ufeful lives. 
Prices of Labour are confiderably increafed; from 
12d. to 14d. a day in winter; 18d. to 20d. hay- 
making; harveft 2s; beer or an allowance in malt, 
in fome places, is gaining ground, and as much as 
poflible is done by the great. Women from 6d. 
to 8d. and gd. in haymaking; in harveft 12d. 
Hours of work from fix to fix, when day-light per- 
mits; late hours in haymaking and harveft gene- 
rally recompenfed with beer, &c. 
The 
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