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field you will find nettles— -and if fuff^ered tQ 

 grow, nothing clfe can; if the nettle be de-* 

 ftroyed, the bed grafs will fpring up. 



There are in this kingdom an infinite number 

 of acres of rich and excellent land, which, froni. 

 bad management, and from want of judgment 

 in flocking, become of no more value than a 

 barren foil. To ignorant managers a barren 

 is of equal importance with the fined loamy 

 foil. To fee a piece of fine fertile land v/ith a 

 few horfes on one part, a lump of thiftles in an- 

 other, a bunch of vigorous nettles on another, r. 

 and with a number of tufts of long grafs which : 

 the horfes never meddle with, is enough to make: 

 the ingenious induftrioushuflDandman figh with 

 regret at the wafte, and to blame the egregious, 

 folly of the occupier ! 



Were the grafsjuft mentioned mown and giv- 

 en to the animals in the fold or flail, as before 

 recommended, they would eat it, increafe the 

 dunghill; and thus the grafs would ferve two 

 good purpofes at once. When the tufts arc cut 

 down, young eddifh grows up in the place, 

 which all cattle will greedily feed upon. If we 

 fuppafe that one half of the grafs-land is loft 



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