WEST DEVONSHIRE, 151 



From what I have feen, in this country, 

 of the effeds of fodburning, I am more and 

 anore convinced, that, in many cafes, and 

 under difcrete management, it forms a 

 valuable part of Britifh huibandry ; and 

 may become an inftrimient of real im- 

 provement, in places where it is not, at 

 prefent, known; efpecially in bringing 

 the WASTE LANDS of the Ifland into a 

 proper courfe of cultivation *. 



Political Agriculture appears to 

 me to be highly interefted, in the conti- 

 nuance of this practice ; which men, who 

 farm in clofets, feem defirous to extin- 

 ■ ^uifli. But Jet them theorize with cau- 

 tion ; and go forth into the field of prac- 

 tice, before they venture to draw infe- 

 rences, which may prove fubverlive of the 

 public good they doubtlefs intend to pro- 

 mote. 



Men of landed property, however, 



ought to regard this pra(!^ice, with a 



watchful eye. Through its means, a 



tenant has it in his power to enrich him- 



h 4 felf, 



* For remarks on the means of cultivating 

 WASTE LANDS, fee YoRK, EcoN. Vol. I. P. 316- 



