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TURES for cattle and horfes, and common 

 'WEADows for hay. 



Under this ancient fyflem of management 

 the produce of the Diftridt was fmall j the 

 fields were unprodu6live, by incefTant plow- 

 ing, and for want of a change of crops ; and 

 the meadows, by being mown year after year 

 without remiffion, and without any other 

 melioration than what chance floods might 

 partially afford them : while the pafture- 

 grounds, over-run with bufhes and weeds, 

 were equally unprodudtive. The principal 

 part of the entire produce went to the main- 

 tenance of the oxen and horfes employed in 

 the cultivation of the fields. Even the yeo- 

 manry, with all their induftry and frugality, 

 ftarved on their own eftates, well foiled as 

 many of them naturally were. 



The Inclofures which have taken place 

 within the prefent century (fee the Art. In- 

 CLOSUREs) have not only changed the fyflem 

 of management, and have increafed the neat 

 produce of the Diftridt perhaps threefold; 

 but have inverted, in a remarkable manner, 

 the comparative value of lands. 



U 2 Formerly, 



