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yet had experience of any part of the king- 

 dom in which this commodity is not to be 

 purchafed in large quantities: fome there 

 may be, in which a high price is requifitc 

 to procure it; perhaps a ihiUing or two 

 more than the market-price formed by the 

 old demand ; for this reafon I have, in the 

 above farm, and in all the reft wherein I 

 fuppofe ftraw to be purchafed, charged fo 

 high a price for it, as I apprehend is fuf- 

 ficient to overturn the common pradice. 

 Thus much it is neceffary to add, in anfwer 

 to thofe who may think it difficult to pro- 

 cure ftraw. The point is of very great im- 

 porsance to the improvement of land, and the 

 practice of a fpirited huft^andry ; for I muft 

 be allowed to write to good farmers, under 

 the fuppofition of their having bad ones 

 for their neighbours. This idea is no 

 ftrained one. But in cafe a neighbourhood 

 is to be found inhabited by fuch excellent 

 huft^andmen that not a load is to be bought, 

 my cultivator muft take other means of 

 raifing manure, although they may be more 

 difficult ones; nor. will they, in many in- 

 ftances, occafion any confiderable variation 

 in thefe caiculaticns, as the cafl:i I have ap- 

 propriated 



