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may be, the surrounding country, better able to 

 support a paying crop. 



The preservation of the useful birds is a ques- 

 tion that concerns both landlord and tenant. 



Every farmer, if he knows his business, ought 

 to be the protector of the birds, and see that the 



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nests on his holding are not destroyed ; and 

 every landlord who desires success to British 

 agriculture ought to give his gamekeeper a list 

 of useful birds, with strict orders that their 

 nests are to be preserved. 



But what directly concerns the landlord and 

 farmer concerns indirectly the cottager and the 

 nation. If the acre does not produce of its best 



