I3© LAYING-OUT FARMS. iZ, 



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LAYING-OUT FARMS, 



MANY of the prefent farms, efpeclally 

 thofe of confidcrable fize, have formerly lain 

 to perhaps two, three, or more feparate meffa- 

 ages J each, perhaps, occupied by its refpec- 

 tive owner : this, and the intermixture of pro- 

 perty already fpoken of, accounts for that abun- 

 dance of petty inclofures, — or " pightles" — fo 



difo-raceful to Eafl-Norfolk as an arable coun- 

 ts 



try. 



It is, however, the prevailing fafliion at pre- 

 fent, when adjoining pightles belong to the 

 fame proprietor, or when they can, by ex- 

 changes, be brought into the fame hands, to 

 erafe the intermediate fences, and lay them in- 

 to inclofures proportioned to the fize of the 

 farm to which they belong. 



This, namely, proportioning the fize of the 

 fisldsto that of the farm, is a matter to which 

 Norfolk hufbandmen at prefent are very atten- 

 tive. The fingular fyftem of hufbandry prac- 



tifed 



