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fl.ate. This clafs of land is valued in Its prefent ftate 

 at 2I. 155. per ftatute acre. 



No. V. or the fifth clafs of paflure, is generally 

 appropriated to the feeding of cows, and commonly 

 lies in fmall pieces near the farm-houfe. It is fome- 

 times united in the fummer, and feparated in the 

 winter J but oftener divided by large blind ditches, 

 more than half filled by time. Some of thefe pieces 

 have been foimerly tilled, others of them not tilled, 

 which caufes an unevennefs of furface that makes 

 the improvement of it at a fland. Indeed the mere 

 cow-farmer, confidered as a tenant, is too idle to be- 

 ftow any labour about the land himfelf. His wife 

 is, however, ready to lend her aflifiiance in the field as 

 well as the dairy; but fince the increafe in the price 

 of butter and cheefe, the injury her fine elothes would 

 fuflain will be more than equal to her induftry upon 

 the land. But cannot the farmer get labourers to 

 improve this pafture ? Yes, but he reafons thus : If 

 I expend five pounds, my landlord will get ten pounds 

 by it ; yet he will be fo far from thanking me for 

 it, that he will again raife my rent five fliillings per 

 acre in the next feven years leafe. This clafs of 

 pafture is valued in 50s. per acre. 



No. VI. or the fixth clafs of land, is generally 

 ranked under the denomination of the befl meadow 

 Jand, or that kind of pafture which hath been for- 

 merly in tillage, and laid down plain and level, com- 

 monly called New Lays, which by agricultural ma- 

 nagement hath been brought worth 45s. per acre. 



