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conducted a mile diftant, which could be 

 done for twenty-five {hillings. A tradt, a 

 foot deep and a foot wide, would advantage 

 the grafs fields confiderably more than all the 

 expence. Hot lime laid upon the ground in 

 the month of July, immediately after the firft 

 cutting of hay, would double the value of 

 the pafture. 



Another objection may be ftarted, viz. 

 That it would be very difficult, when divid- 

 ing the country into diftrids, to get all the 

 farms of equally good foil ; and, of courfe, 

 the good farms at prefent high rented would 

 obtain almoft the whole of the premiums. 



There is not fo much force in this objec- 

 tion as may appear at firft view. The very 

 end of dividing the whole country into dif- 

 tri6ls is to endeavour, as much as poilible, to 

 bring the whole diftri6t into one courfe of 

 cropping, which, in time, when perfevered 

 in, would bring the whole very near on a 

 level as to produce. 



It is to be particularly obferved, that in 

 many parts of the country, the foil of the 

 outfield is equally good, when improved, 

 with thofe farms which are already highly 



improved. 



