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priator can have any right to the money in my pocket j 

 it is optional in me, and in every other man, whether 

 he will lay out 81. or lol. per acre in liming, marling, 

 fub-draining, fallowing, and improving land, when 

 he knows, that taking one-tenth of the crop before 

 he is repaid his expences, will turn the balance of 

 the account againft him, and that he had better lay 

 out his money at interefl, or in fome other way, and 

 live in idlenefs (as thoufands do) to the great injury 

 of the publick. I fortunately was able, when I firfl 

 began to amufe myfelf with farming, to compound 

 with the owner of the great tithe; and that encou- 

 . raged me to grub, moot, inclofe, drain, and cultivate, 

 (at more expence than the value of the freehold) a 

 great .quantity of rough land, not ploughed within 

 memory; and I have raifed above 10, cool, worth of 

 grain, (where none would have been raifed if I could 

 not have compounded) and fupported many poor 

 femilies (for I keep no farming fervant in my houfe) 

 in tilling land that otherwife would dill have remain- 

 ed uncultivated, to the great lofs of the community: 

 and from this inflance, and many others within my 

 knowledge, the lofs to the nation for want of ge- 

 neral inclofmg and road bills, a commutation for tithe, 

 and a power for all tenants for life to grant fome 

 term (fay feven or eleven years) certain, exceeds all 

 computation. Some leafe is elTential to good huf- 

 bandry ; and I really think, if all thofe laws were made, 



that 



