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at prcfcnt for the fupport of his family and 

 labourers would be almoft fufficient for them, 

 if he cultivated his farm according to my Im- 

 proved Method 5 and whatever he raifed more 

 than is at prefent produced, might be fent to 

 market without any confiderable dedu6lion. 



Indeed, were the land all put to its proper 

 ufe, it is almoil inconceivable how much 

 Hiight be raifed. For infVance, a quantity of 

 nuts equal to that imported from abroad might 

 grow on the land where the prefent fences 

 ftand I and every ten yards an apple or pear- 

 tree might be planted. Some of the children 

 of poor labouring people might gather them : 

 fuch an employment would certainly be pre- 

 ferable to idlenefs ; for the fooner youth wha 

 is doomed to earn his bread by his labour is 

 put to it the better. As every man muft fence 

 his land in, and muft have one end and fide ; 

 every ten acres will have four hundred and for- 

 ty yards of fencing; and, if planted ten yards 

 afunder, there would be forty-four fruit-trees. 

 If every tree bore 55. worth of fruit, the value 

 of the whole produce would be eleven pounds — ' 

 a decent rent for the land: and where tht 



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