22O THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" cattle to be ufed for manuring that land 

 " only : for it is a kind of injustice, if one 

 " may fo fpeak, to carry the produce off, and 

 " not leave the manure that arifes from it, 

 " and is its natural due ; a robbery that is 

 *' too frequently committed, which keeps fuch 

 '* land in a perpetual ftate of poverty. 



" Thefe thirty acres, in the condition I fir ft 

 " found them, were not worth more than 

 " half a crown an acre; but, by the above 

 * c management, are well worth ten millings 

 " at leaft ; and by the fame means are capable 

 " of much more improvement. This, in my 

 *' own opinion, is a fpecies of improvement that 

 " deferves the clofeft attention ; as perhaps 

 " there is not another to be found, which 

 " may in general be made fo advantageous and 

 " extenfively ufeful. It comprehends every 

 " kind of land that is capable of improve- 

 " ment ; and the diftance from the farm-yard 

 *' is no very great inconvenience, as all the 

 " labour it requires on that account is, a boy 

 " going once a-day to give the cattle fodder, 

 *' and Spread fome litter, and this not until 

 *' the grafs is gone, and the weather fevere ; 

 * 4 then the litter is neceflary to increafe the 

 " quantity of dung, as well as to be of ufe to 

 the cattle. By iuch management, land that 

 " is very indifferent in its natural ftate may 

 " very loon be made very good corn land, to 

 " the great advantage of the owner." 



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