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together with the unremitting care and 

 fuperintendance, which an extenfive eftate 

 and its occupiers require, form a feparate 

 and very important branch of Rural 

 Management. 



Again, — Woodlands, which were 

 formerly committed to the care of farm 

 occupiers, who reaped the undergrowth, 

 as a produce of their holds, the timber 

 being referved for the owners of the lands, 

 are now generally, and very properly, de- 

 tached from tenanted lands, and placed 

 under the care and fuperintendance of 

 woodwards, ad:ing as affiftants to the 

 managers of eftates ; the whole produce, 

 whether of timber or undergrowth, being 

 reaped by the proprietor of the foil, 



ThisMANAGEMENTofcROWN WOODS, 



is in itfelf an employment of fome 

 confideration, and, when united with the 

 propagation of woodlands, whether by 



PLANTING or by SEMINAL CULTIVA- 

 TION, forms the fecond fubje(5l of Rural 

 Economy. 



The laft is Agriculture; or the 



cultivation of farm lands 3 whether in the 



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