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bandry ; and there is not, in the whole 

 range of rural ceconomy, a more impor- 

 tant object than the country being richly 

 flocked. The beft land is of no avail with- 

 out a fufficient fum of money to render its 

 fertility of ufe : Neither fkill nor induftry 

 will make any amends for want of an am- 

 ple ftock. One of the moil common, and 

 yet mod fatal errors, to which the conduct 

 of a farmer is open, is that of underftock- 

 ing : Inftances are innumerable ; this ave- 

 rage of the whole Tour is one, and fpeaks 

 the thing very ftrongly. Suppofe the farm 

 for this average rent of ioo/. to be two 

 hundred acres, half grafs and half arable ; 

 an hundred acres of grafs, at 10;. will 

 keep thirty cows ; the arable hundred, 

 thrown into that moil beneficial courfe, of 

 i. turneps, 2. barley, 3. clover, 4. wheat, 

 will fummer keep or fatten (with the af- 

 fiftance the grafs will give after the cows) 

 eighty fheepj and winter fatten on turneps,. 

 belides what is ufed for the other cattle, 

 thirty fleers of 6 /. value -, reckoning the 

 cows at 7/. and the fheep at 15J. this 

 amount of cattle is 450/. or, in other 

 words, 59 /. more than the whole average 

 itock of this farm. 



If it be afked, why farmers in general fb 

 much underftock themlelves ; it is at once 

 anlwered, by obferving the univerfal prac- 

 tice 



