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making a coat, &c. or they will not find mo- 

 ney to buy your beef. The man of landed 

 property, then, only holds the money for a 

 tune, as all mechanics and traders whatever 

 mufl have the m>eans to buy the beef, bread 

 and butter at the advanced price. Now, to 

 prevent the above evils, what muft be done ? 

 I dare fay every thinking man will allow the 

 land in its prefent flate does not produce all it 

 is capable of producing. Therefore we muft 

 endeavour fo to cultivate it that it may fend 

 m.ore fo market; viz. by tilling it and raifing 

 crops of corn, turnips, clover, &c. I am of 

 opinion two thirds ( if not one half ) of the 

 grafs land in the kingdom would keep, if 

 properly managed, the fame quantity of ftock 

 that the whole now does; and there would be 

 one third left to be ploughed. This fort of 

 management would not only fill the markets 

 full of grain, but of flefh j for in winter, when 

 caule, fl^.cep, and horfes require moft fupport, 

 they derive their food chiefly from the produce 

 of the arable land. 



Butfome will fay, "There are neither peo- 

 ple nor m.oney fufficient to put this plan in 



pradice." 



