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To obviate this feeming difference, I aflert from ex- 

 perience, as a praftical agriculturift, that every marfh 

 farmer of importance, occupying two hundred acres, 

 does or ought to grow twenty acres of wheat, milk 

 twenty cows, and feed twenty oxen and heifers, be- 

 fides fheep and other cattle. Now, fuppoling cows 

 to be more profitable than oxen, will not the farmer 

 milk thirty cows, and feed only ten oxen ? And by 

 the fame rule, will he not, with the approbation of 

 his landlord, (upon paying an equivalent for worfling 

 the land) grow forty acres of wheat inflead of twenty, 

 ihould he conceive wheat likely to continue fo high 

 as nine or ten fliillings per bulhel ? 



Should it be objefted, that 3I. 10s. per acre for the 

 bed paflure is more than a farmer can make of it 

 even with cows, let me a.flc the reafon why farmers 

 are fo earned to rent it at that price, and why the 

 new inclofed lands in their uncultivated date gene- 

 rally fell at auftion under zS:s of parliament from 70I. 

 to lool. per acre ? We have a gentleman in Burn- 

 ham worth io,oool. of his own getting, who hath 

 refufed 4I. per datute acre for his bed padure, and 

 that from a fubdantial tenant, who offered to covenant 

 to feed it with nothing but cows. 1 own at prefent 

 four acres of padure in Burnhara, datute meafure, 

 let on a leafe at fourteen pounds per annum. It was 

 purchafed by one of my ancedors in the reign of 

 King James I. at feventeen pounds ; and I am this 

 day (which is the reafon of its being noticed) offered 



