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would the farmers have any occafion to grudge 

 this tax, as they would have it in their power 

 to be free when they pleafed ; and the fums 

 raifcd in this way might be given to fuch of 

 their brother farmers, as, in every county or 

 fhire, received, we fhall fuppofe L. 50, for 

 ten acres of the beft crop of wheat the firft 

 year, and fo on every year, for the different 

 crops mentioned in the plan fixed upon by 

 government ; fo that the farmers who were 

 not concerned in the national plan would 

 reap great benefit, much more than the a- 

 mount of the taxes they paid. Thus alfo, 

 the general improvement of land would fpread 

 very rapidly throughout the kingdom ; for, 

 by a comparative view of the produce of each 

 acre in the different (hires, when cultivated 

 according to the government plan, farmers 

 would foon fee it their interefl to adopt the 

 lame method, thus gaining experience from 

 the experiments of others. 



Another great advantage would arife from 

 this annual regifter, namely, that the time of 

 fowing would be fpecified, and it would foon 

 be feen, that it was greatly for the emolument 

 of the farmers to fow their grain earlier than 

 they do at prefent; as the early fowing 



does 



