( '56 ) 



than the annual taxation, by learning from 

 the example of others in the neighbourhood, 

 where an annual regifter of each year's pro- 

 duce ihould be kept, and to be open to the 

 infpedlion of every farmer. The proprietor 

 of every eftate would gain ten times more 

 than his annual taxation ; in fome parts up- 

 wards of an hundred fold, by getting his 

 whole eftate improved in the higheft order. 



Befides, any gentleman that inclined, might 

 have a chance for fome of the premiums, by 

 labouring a part of his eftate himfelf. 



As it is to be under flood, that no farmer 

 could gain more than one prize for each grain, 

 that is, fix prizes in whole, this would make 

 the greater part of the farmers almoft certain 

 of one prize at leaft in ten years. 



Each diftridl of the improved part of the 

 country, twelve miles long and four broad, 

 would raife an annual fum of above A 550, 

 which would pay the three clafles of premi- 

 ums. 



If the whole of Britain was divided into 

 diftri&s, according to their natural fituations, 

 fome larger, fome lefs, this would make the 

 improvements very rapid, and no perfon 



would 



