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His Lordfhip's fyftem of hufbandry is an ad- 

 mirable one ; it is in the great outline to take 

 farms into his own hands, as the leafes expire, 

 to keep them for improvement, and when 

 done to relet them. This is the true agricul- 

 ture for profit for a landlord j he has upon 

 this fyftem improved near 2000 acres. Throw- 

 ing down the old miferable fences which fplit 

 the farms into little fcraps of fields, and made 

 new ditches for drains and water-courfes, dif- 

 pofed the new fields to the befl advantage, 

 drained them with ftone drains where wet, 

 broke up fuch of the grafs as was bad, culti- 

 vated it enough to bring it into proper order, 

 and laid it down again to meadow ; there can- 

 not be a better fyftem, or more calculated at 

 the fame time to ornament a country, and im- 

 prove his own eftate. 



HisLordfhip has alfo followed feveral prac- 

 tices in farming, which have proved of great 

 fervice; among others, keeping hogs upon 

 clover. He had a mind to mew the country- 

 man that they might keep many hogs (a very 

 advantageous ftock to them) by means of clo- 

 ver ; he kept four fows and twenty-four pigs 

 the fu, T.mer through on one acre, by which 

 he made lol. produce. A clear proof that the 

 hufbandry would be highly advantageous with 

 this view. 



Turnips he cultivates upon a very large 



fcale j xvas the firft who had them here on 



Bubbles ; he has thirty or forty acres, and 



3 every 



