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great, and the mother country will be ne~ 

 gledled, and of courfego to ruin. 



Another caufe of the dearnefs of provifions 

 may be, the want of a regular rotation of 

 crops of corn and grafs, with a fallow. 



Thus many farms are conftantly on the 

 decline, by continual cropping with corn 

 without grafs. In other places, too much 

 grafs, and too little corn, has the fame effeft 

 of diminifhing the due quantity of national 

 produce. 



The attempts of many to improve new 

 foil, and giving it over before it is half fi- 

 nilhed, do the fame ; though this laft may 

 be owing in ibme meafure to want of money, 

 knowledge, or patience. 



To all which we may add, the many fai- 

 lures of farmers in different places, owing to 

 the land being too high rented in its unim- 

 proved ftate, as well as other caufes. And 

 we may lay it down as an indifputable 

 maxim, That when a farmer fails, the pro- 

 duce of the farm is as certainly at that time 

 on the decline. 



The very great increafe of cities and large 

 towns, as it may be confidered as one of the 

 principal caufes of the decline of agriculture, 



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