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artificial food, produced on a farm, confifting of a 

 proportionable quantity of this kind of land, the oc- 

 cupier is enabled to relieve and affift his natural pa- 

 fture grounds, as circumftances and the feafons may 

 require. And this mode of management feems alfo 

 beft calculated to enable the tenant to pay the land- 

 lord the greateft poffible rent, while it prevents him 

 from fuffering thofe inconveniencies which muft ne- 

 ceflarily happen by the fall of prices, to that far- 

 mer who can carry to market one fpecies of com- 

 modity only. 



To a perfon acquainted with the beft modes of 

 cultivation adopted in all the more improved parts 

 of Scotland, where every kind of foil, from the 

 light lands of Norfolk, to the ftrong clays of 

 Lincolnfhire, are to be met with, it muft appear 

 furprifing to fee a man and a boy, with four or five 

 horfes, employed for the greateft part of a day, in 

 plowing an acre of land, while in almoft every part 

 of North Britain, the fame operation is performed 

 in lefs time by a man and two horfes, without a 

 driver. 



If neat light ploughs, with caft-iron mould-boards, 

 were introduced, there is no doubt but a man with 

 two horfes, would do the fame work which they 

 now perform with double the number, and to as 

 good purpofe. It is, therefore, worthy of the at- 

 tention of thofe proprietors who take a pleafure 

 in cultivating a farm on their own eftates, to 

 make the experiment ; for it is a well known 

 fadl, that by leflening the expence of cultiva- 

 tion, the tenant is enabled to pay a higher rent ; 

 and a great proportion of what is faved in this re- 

 fpedt goes ultimately into the landlord's pocket. 



For the fame reafon, it may be proper to recom- 

 mend the introdu6tion of the machine now fo gene- 

 rally uied in Scotland for threfliing grain ; and 

 which, from feveral years experience, has been found 

 to execute the work to much better purpofe than can 



be. 



