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some, even more* ; now if these be reckoned and 

 accounted . for as a part of the field, then the acre- 

 able produce is affected, and even the profit of the 

 husbandry, by a circumstance not essentially con- 

 nected with it ; and if two fields be compared in 

 their husbandry, that may be most advantageous 

 which has least border, and for that reason, which 

 would derange a comparison entirely. I know but 

 one method of getting rid of this difficulty, which 

 is, to measure the neat contents where the plough 

 goes in an arable field, and where the scythes cut 

 in a grass one, and then deducting the total of 

 those measures from the gross contents of the farm, 

 throw the difference into one accompt by itself, un- 

 der the title offences and borders, to which accompt 

 must be charged the proportion of rent, tithe, and 

 parish taxes. If wood be cut or grubbed from 

 these borders, or grass mown from them, the value 

 of the wood or hay to be credited. The expence 

 of the fences to be charged, and the balance of the 

 whole, for it may every where be expected to prove 

 a losing accompt, considered' as the expence of 

 fences, and acreably divided over the whole farm, 

 like rent, tithe, or parish taxes. The only person 

 who ever had an attention to this accuracy, was Mr, 

 Baker, the experimenter to the Dublin Society. 

 lie published a map of his farm, with the gross and 

 neat contents of every field. For want of observing 

 the precaution, many experiments have ben made, 



* Margins of grass are common round the fields in Suffolk. 



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