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Hate tenant (and fortunate muft that parifti be ac- 

 counted, where only one tenant of that defcrii; ion 

 is to be found) has it in his power to prevent the 

 introdudlion of any improvement, however bene- 

 ficial it may appear to the other inhabitants of the 

 parilh. The tillage lands are divided into finall lots, 

 of two or three old faihioned, broad, crooked ridges, 

 (gathered very high towards the middle, or crown, 

 being the only means of drainage that the manner 

 In which the lands are occupied will admit of ), and 

 confequently the farmer poflelfing lo© acres, muft 

 traverfe the whole extent of the parifli, however 

 large, in order to cultivate this fmall portion. The 

 great additional expence of cultivating lands, fo fi- 

 tuated, muft be obvious to every farmer of common 

 underftanding ; while the never-ending rotation of 

 corn-crops, to which the lands are fubjected, muft 

 render them incapable of producing any tolerable 

 returns. 



The meadows are kept in a ftate of common pa- 

 fturage from the time the hay is carried off till La- 

 dy-day, by which means the crops of hay are very 

 indifferent, compared with thofe produced on in. 

 clofed lands properly managed. 



The leys are generally divided into three fields ; 

 one is allotted for the pafturage of the flieep, an- 

 other for the cows, and, on the third, the lliameful 

 practice of tethering the horfes is ftill continued. 

 And by every information that could be procured, it 

 appears that the ftock is not kept with a view to any 

 profit that can poffibly arile from the fales, but 

 merely as the means of cultivating and manuring 

 the foil. Indeed, long experience has evinced, 

 that no fpecies of ftock kept in thefe open fields, 

 can be carried to market on terms nearly fo ad- 

 vantageous, as the fame articles reared by thofe 

 farmers who occupy inclofed lands ; nor is it to be 

 fuppofed, confidering the manner in which the ftock 

 is treated, that the owners will pay much attention 



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