the amazing increafe that might be made up- 

 on the produce of Britain, in the courfe of 

 forty years, that is ten times the prefent pro- 

 duce, which would be a thoufand millions* 

 provided the methods recommended were 

 adopted, are filled with furprife, and cannot 

 be brought to conceive how it is poflible to 

 accomplifh it in fuch a fhort time. 



The greateft, if not the only objedlion, is 

 to get the whole nation to adopt the plans 

 mentioned. If once the prejudice were re- 

 moved, and the farmers in general only con- 

 fidered their own intereft, and agreed to make 

 a trial of it, the end would be gained; but, 

 let a plan be ever fo good, if the gentlemen 

 and farmers are determined not to alter their 

 old fchemes, although bad for themfelves 

 and the country, the end propofed cannot be 

 gained. 



If the plan propofed were reduced to prac-s 

 tice, the whole land of Britain in tillage at 

 prefent, in the courfe of ten years, would be 

 improved, and the half of the whole would 

 be in fown grafs ; the farmer, having fuch a 

 great quantity of grafs, could every year 

 fummer-fallow fo much out-field, or wafte 

 ground npw in paflure, as would be equal to 



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