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reflection of intelligent perfons of property, 

 who, no doubt, after due conviction, will em- 

 brace a project, fo conducive to their own pri- 

 vate, as well as the public intereft. There is, 

 however, a fpecies of coercion perfectly legiti- 

 mate, that of the lord of the land over his te- 

 nant ; and it is fubmitted to public-fpirited 

 landlords, whether, in granting leafes, it would 

 not be an act of patriotic duty, to ftipulate for 

 the employment of draft oxen upon the farm, 

 to a certain extent. Such a claufe would, in 

 my opinion, be an advantageous change for the 

 impolitic one of compelling the tenant to make 

 fummer fallows. 



But it behoves thofe, who are fo fanguine in 

 recommending the ufe of bullocks for labour, 

 to point out where fuch may be had ? and that 

 with little trouble too ; for it is well known to 

 thofe mod converfant with his character, that ho- 

 neft John Trot would not be induced to ftep a 

 fingle inch out of his accuftomed track, by a 

 profpeet of the greatefl advantage ; nay, would 

 even deteft the man with a kind of religious 

 hatred, who (hould prefume to point it out to 

 him. The oxen broke for draft are few; and 

 in numberlefs fituations, particularly out of 

 breeding counties, a man muft fend five or fix 

 fcore miles to obtain them. This inconveni- 

 ence muft be obviated by the body of land- 

 lords, and by our great experimental (lock- 

 breeders ; 



