3i8 NATURAL GRASSES. 35. 



an acre, is fifteen thoufand pounds; from 

 which take one-third for the expence of im- 

 provcnienr, the remainder is ten thoufand 

 pounds, the neat annual improvement. 



If to the IMPROVEMENT of draining, Sec. 

 that of WATERING wcrc added, in placej 

 where it is pradicable, at a moderate expencCj 

 this annual increafe might be very confider-^ 

 ably augmented. 



In a country where landed gentlemen are fo 

 minutely, and fo ftrenuoully, attentive to their 

 own intereft, it is aftonifbing they dd not feC 

 about fuch real improvements as would, in the 

 itiftant, render them refpedable, and bring, 

 in the end, a durable increafe to their rent-rolls ; 

 rather than continue to dwell upon thofe, 

 which have already brought down fo much 

 diftrefs upon their tenants, and obloquy upon 

 themfelve^. 



However, with refpedl to the improvement 

 of Hieadows, the tenants are equally culpable 

 with their landlords : even a twenty-one yearns 

 leafe is not enoug-h to encourasre them to make 

 the rcquifite improvement. 



The fadl is, the landlord and tenant are 

 jointly interciled-, and the expence in tiiis, as 



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