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the grazier can fo much the lefs afFord in proportion 

 as the rents increafe. The annual rent of this firft 

 fort of pafture, from the recent rife of the farmer's 

 commodities, is now increafed to 3I. los. per ftatute 

 acre. 



No. II. or the fecond clafs of pafture, generally 

 confifts of the fame fized pieces as the firfl clafs, and 

 is not eafily diftinguiflaed from it, where the grazier 

 hath been in the habit of feeding it fine ; and, in imi- 

 tation of the corn-farmer's manner of checking the 

 growth of wheat, mows off the tops of the rank graft 

 the latter end of May. When I have had any doubt 

 about diflinguifliing this fort of pafture, my method 

 has always been to ccmfider jt as feconds, if it lay 

 unlevel upon the whole or uneven in its parts; or 

 if the water flayed on any low part, or if its fituation 

 were uncommonly flart or cold, or if any old perfon 

 remembered it's having been applied to any other pur- 

 pofe befides that of grazing, or if at a diftance from 

 houfes or good roads ; in any or all of thefe cafes 

 I fet it down as feconds, and value it in 5s. per acre 

 lefs, viz. 3I. 5s. per acre. 



No. III. or the third clafs of pafture, may be ea- 

 fily diflinguiflied, as it doth not poffefs the liberality 

 of nature in fo great a degree as the firfl: and fecond 

 claffes. It includes mofl; of the well-drained land 

 from" fifteen to thirty acre pieces, that lie plain and 

 level, and have never been mowed or ploughed. It 

 is more particularly applicable to the grazing of hei- 

 fers 



