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Nor is this the only method he takes of In- 

 creafing the population of his neighbour- 

 hood ; he takes every year a number of the 

 boys from the foundling hofpital at Ack- 

 ivorth^ in this county, and binds them 

 apprentices to his tenants, to be taught the 

 pradtical part of hufbandry. All this forms 

 an enlarged and enlightened fyftem of 

 politicks, very far removed from the per- 

 nicious practices of nine tenths of the king- 

 dom. It is obfervable, that the poor rates 

 of his villages, have by no means increafed 

 fmce this plan has been adopted. 



Fifthly, I fliould remark, that the 

 general plan and tendency of this fpirited 

 cultivator's hufbandry is to keep conftantly 

 in his hands a large tradt of land ; he takes 

 the worft firft, and improves it by every 

 means : ,5f the buildings are in bad condi- 

 tion, he raifes new ones ; throws the farms 

 regularly around each ; lays the fields into 

 regular fhapes ; brings the fences into good 

 order; — fallows the v/orn out lands, and 

 throws them into fuch beneficial courfes of 

 hufbandry, by means of cabbages and clo- 

 ver, as in a few years to bring them into 

 proper order for laying down with grafics ; 

 which he accordingly executes, and leaves 

 a fmall part in tillage. Then he lets the 

 farm, and takes another into his liancls to 

 manage in the fame manner j by v.-hich 

 3 means 



