,6 TILLAGE. 



But keeping cattle of every fort, is a bufmefs fo much more 

 adapted to the lazinefs of the farmer, that it is no wonder the 

 tillage is fo bad. It is every where left to the cottars, or to 

 the very pooreft.of the farmers,, who are all utterly unable to 

 make thofe exertions, upon which alone a vigorous culture of 

 the earth can be founded ; and were it not for potatoes, 

 which neceflarily prepare for corn, there would not be half of 

 what we fee at prefent. While it is in fuch hands, no wonder 

 tillage is reckoned fo unprofitable ; profit in all undertakings 

 depends on capital, and is it any wonder that the profit fHouJd 

 be finall when the capital is nothing at all ? Every man that 

 has one gets into cattle, whiych will give him an idle, lazy, 

 fuperintendence, inftead of an aftive attentive one. 



That ihejj//lem of tillage has improved very little, much as 

 it has been extended in the laft fourteen years, there is great 

 reafon to believe, from the very fmall increafe in the import 

 of clover feed, which would have doubled and trebled, had 

 tillage got into the train it ought. This the following table 

 proves. 



Import of Clover feed. 



Cwt. 



In the year 1764 2990 



1765 2798 



1766 3654 



1767 1479 



1768 4476 



1769 2483 

 177 ~ 55 6 3 



Average of feven years 3349 



1771 4083 



1772 2956 



1773 * 820 

 '774 3 8 5 

 '775 ' 39o 

 1776 4648 



'777 5988 

 Average of feven years*. 3927 



* Taken from the Records of imports and export i kept by order of 

 the Houfe of Commons. 



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