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give but the proper quantity of ground for tillage, 

 by an inclofure bill, and you have the befl: poffible 

 chance for plenty of wheat, without bounties-^ which, 

 if they operated all, or confiderably, nrufl:, in the 

 prefent ftate of things, render fcarce, in proportion, 

 fome other articles of field produce, when certainly 

 there are none too abundant. The prefent high 

 price of wheat has doubtlefs produced a fowing, for 

 the next feafon, greater than ufual: but flaould go- 

 verament think any ftep for further immediate in- 

 creafe prudent, perhaps the mod: advifable flep 

 would be to offer premiums to thofe who fliould 

 dibble or fet with wheat, a certain proportion of their 

 land in the approaching fpring — not ufmg more feed 

 than five pecks per acre — but by no means to encou- 

 rage a further additional broad-cajl fowing. 



2 2. No doubts can be made of the good policy of 

 iifing oxen, for the general purpofes of hufbandry: 

 but this has been often faid, and aifented to, without 

 much increafe of the practice. The improvement 

 fliould be warmly recommended, and flipulated for 

 by landlords, who would do well uniformly to fet 

 the example; but the change can neither be com- 

 pulfory nor fudden. 



23. The ufe of land by cottagers has been abridged 

 in fome degree by inclofure of commons — but cer- 

 tainly not to national injury. Other caufcts of 

 abridgment, it is fuppofed, are not confiderablc — 



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