IX. 



"FALLOWS" AND WHAT FOLLOWS. 



WHEN the land is drained, and the crooked ridges 

 obliterated ; the useless fences stocked away, and 

 the few that remain straightened ; the Ash-trees 

 and old pollards grubbed up, together with all 

 other timber that is neither useful nor ornamental , 

 the awkward inequalities of surface reduced, by the 

 spade as well as the plow ; the Farm-buildings 

 improved a little, and adapted for the better and 

 roomier accommodation of a better and larger 

 head of stock : and last not least, the House 

 rendered habitable for human beings "both male 

 and female" when all this is done and thanks 

 to increasing Population, increasing Trade, and 

 increasing Intelligence, such things are done, here 

 and there, now-a-days ; it will in most cases 

 he found that a considerable amount of Time, and 

 of something else will have been expended. But 



can it in truth be said that until this be done, the 

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