232 CULTIVATED HERBAGE. 



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CULTIVATED HERBAGE. 



IT has been already mentioned, that the; 

 cultivation of herbage is of more than half 

 a century (landing, in the Diil:ri6t under- 

 furvey. From this circumftance, and from 

 the cultivation of Turneps, and the ufe of 

 Lime as a manure, having been intro- 

 duced about the fame timxe» it would feem 

 that, about fixty years ago, a stage of 

 IMPROVEMENT took placc j fince v^hich 

 tirne the prad:ice appears to have been 

 ftationary -, and it is, of courfe, nov/ fully 

 prepared for another ilep> 



The PROPORTIONAL (QUANTITY OF 



Lev, in the inclofed country, is full two 

 thirds of the arable lands, or lands o^xa- 

 iionally plowed, confidered as diftindl from 

 meadows, grazing grounds, and rough up- 

 land 



