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seasons and years has yielded any profit. But this is undeniably 

 certain, that the same land when inclosed and improved, will main- 

 tain at least three times the stock breeding, or any ether, than it did 

 in a state of nature. Suppose every acre of waste land in Great 

 Britain by inclosure was improved threefold, what would be the 

 consequence ? a declension of the breeding system? The very con- 

 trary, an extension of it very probably in the same proportion. 

 Without breeding can you graze or make cheese and butter ? Ace 

 not these different modes of occupation most intimately connected 

 with and dependent on each other ? Is not the same land conver- 

 tible to all and every of these purposes subject to the control and re- 

 gulation of the market for each ? Can young stock be kept too well ? 

 Should the breeding of cattle exceed the demand, and from a re- 

 duction of price no longer pay the rent of land, will the farmer 

 repine because his land is susceptible of other methods of application 

 no less beneficial ? Surely not. Could he hesitate what to do when 

 its high state of culture would direct him either to dairy, or gra- 

 zing, as attendant circumstances might require. And should the 

 market be glutted with the produce of dairy and grazing firms, the 

 farmer would naturally recur to breeding stock, or raising corn, so 

 that all these articles would find their natural level, which the de- 

 mand for each, whether inadequate, moderate, or excessive, wouhi 

 invariably regulate, But waste and uncultivated lands being solely 

 appropriated to the breeding of stock, and not convertible to any 

 other purpose^ is without remedy, whenever the market is over- 

 charged with its produce. 



The same reasoning applies to hilly lands in their improved stare, 

 by substituting corn instead of dairy or grazing. From the fore- 

 going premises I think it may be inferred, that since commons of 

 every description when inclosed and cultivated, are capable of sup- 

 porting at least three times more stock than they did in a state of 

 nature, no serious apprehensions should prevail with respect to the 

 diminution, or injury of the breeding system. I do not mean to 

 deny that some local disadvantages may occur, but these are too 

 trifling and limited to merit attention, and still less to impede the 

 progress of an improvement of the greatest national importance.-— 

 The preceding remarks more particularly apply to the moor, or 

 low lands. In addition thereto I have to observe, with heartfelt 



satisfaction*; 



