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a number of the principal farmers in each 

 county were to enter into it alfo, it would 

 undoubtedly influence the generality to fol- 

 low their example ; efpecially as the benefits 

 arifing from fuch a fcheme muft very foon 

 appear. 



That it is the primary intereft of Britain 

 to give encouragement to improvements in 

 agriculture, we hope will now appear clearly 

 evident to every difinterefted perfon, who will 

 only take the trouble to confider what is the 

 prefent produce of Great Britain, and how 

 much that produce might be increafed, if on- 

 ly a part of the beft foils, now lying wafte, 

 were improved; and what great improve- 

 ments could be made upon thofe farms faid 

 to be improved, by having a regular rotation 

 of crops of corn and grafs ; taking care nei- 

 ther to have too much in the one, nor too 

 much in the other. 



The mere article of faving feed would a- 

 flonifh every one, were it to be put in prac- 

 tice as recommended in the National Im- 

 provements ; befides, that by this very fay- 

 ing, the annual produce would be confide- 



rably increased. 



He 



