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nagement; for thus not only the 
cow, but also the cottager himself, 
and his family, would, in a great 
measure, be maintained by a less 
surface of soil. 
3. It is of infinite consequence to 
establish the practicability of this 
System, as the means of removing a 
most unfortunate obstacle to. the 
improvement of the country. It is 
well known to be the only popular 
objeétion to the inclosure of our 
wastes and commons, that, while 
unmelosed, a number of cottagers 
_ are enabled to keep cows, by the 
means of their common rights, and’ 
that their cows disappear when the 
commons are inclosed. But if so 
small a portion of land as 3! acres, 
when improved and properly culti- 
vated, can enable a cottager to keep 
a ¢ow, even to more advantage than 
with a right of common, which can 
hardly be doubted, as he is enabled 
to provide winter as well as summer 
‘food, there is an end to that obstacle 
to improvement, Indeed, if  suffi- 
cient attention be paid to the prin- 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
ciples above detailed, the situation 
of the cottager, instead of being de- 
teriorated, would be materially bet- 
tered by the inclosure ; and his ris- 
ing family would be early accus- 
tomed to habits of industry, instead 
of idleness and vice. 
Ishall conclade with asking if any 
one can figure to himself a more de- 
lightful speétacle, than to see an 
industrious cottager, his busy wife, 
and healthy family, living in a com- 
fortable house, rented by himself, 
cultivating their little territory with 
their own hands, and enjoying the 
profits arising from their own la- 
bour and industry, or whether it is 
possible for’a generous land-holder 
to employ his property with more 
satisfaction, or in a manner more 
likely to promote, not only his own, 
but the public interest, than by en- 
deavouring to. increase the number 
of such cottagers,; and encouraging, 
by every means in his power, the 
exertions of so meritorious and 
so important a class of the com- 
munity. 
Plan of the proposed Cottage Farm, pointing out the Rotation ef Crops in 
the different Lots. 
2 Reods petatoes. 
\! Year 1 Rood turnips. 
Lot C. 
3 Roads. 
“|i Year—barley, wheat, or oats. 
Cottage. | The orchard or perpetual pastare. Pond. ) 
Lot A. Lot B. 
3 Roods, Roods. 
2 Roods winter tares. 
ss a 1 Rood spring tares. 
Lot D. 
3 Roods. 
1 Year—clover and rye grass. 
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