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In the Midland counties, where this altcr- 

 nacy of grafs and corn has, in fome inftances, 

 been in pradice time immcmori.d, a regular 

 courfe of hufbandry has taken place. But 

 here, where. this fyftem of management is in 

 its infancy, and where the diverfity of foils 

 is almoft endlefs, no regular round of ma- 

 nagement can, with propriety, be at pre- 

 fent purfued. 



Land which has been kept in tillage 

 century after century, is prone to grafs, 

 and will retain its fward much longer than 

 l^afid Avhich has been only a few years 

 under the plow. And a rich soil, coolly 

 SITUATED, will 7-etain its fivard much longer 

 than thin-foiled upland. 



There are numberlefs inftances in which 

 the richer cooler parts of the early-inclofed 

 common-field land have no.v lain more than 

 half a century in grass : neverthelefs the 

 fward^ though perhaps mown year after year, 

 and treated with no extraordinary care, 

 Jiill remains uni7iipaired : the herbage well 

 forted, and the produce ample. 



Therefore, to fubje<5l the lands of this 

 Piftri(5i, circumflanced as they are, at pre- 



fent. 



