S92 MANAGEMENT OF FARMS. 18. 



Formerly y the meadow lands were generally 

 efteeaied the moft valuable part of a town- 

 {hip : there have been inftances of thefe lands 

 cold-foiled, wet, diflantly fuuatcd, and un- 

 prodiidtive, being exchanged for common- 

 field lands ; which at frcfdnt being naturally 

 well foiled, fituated near a town, now inclof- 

 ed, and laid down to grafs, are of five times 

 the value of the old grafsland ; fome of which 

 flill lies in an intermixed unimproved ftate. 



This is the moLl ftriklng proof I have met 

 with of much being to be done, in fome cafes, 



bv a CHANGE OF GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



This extraordinary improvement has not 

 been eire(ftcd bv the mere circumftance of 

 Inclofurc ; but principally by that ot chang- 

 ing: OLD ARABLE LANDS TO GRASS, AND OLD 

 lAST'JHE LANDS TO ARABLE. A changC 



which feldom. fails, if properly made, of 

 being highly beneficial to the occupier, 

 and is frequently, as in this cafe, permanently 

 beneficial to an estate. 



The cnci.nt fyRcm of management being 

 now nearly cxtincl' -, and no circumftance of 

 ir, except the cxrrcir/j induftry and frugality 

 with which it was condudcd, being worth 

 .prcfcrvation •, I lliall -.nocceJ to confider the 



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