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 advantage of cultivating them; if the 

 courfes of crops are bad, and tending to 

 exhauft the foil ; if the farmers are diftref- 

 {cd for want of grafs, and yet know nothing 

 of the artificial ones ; if they labour under 

 diilrefs for winter food for their cattle, and 

 yet are unacquainted with the turnip, cab- 

 bage, or carrot hufbandry ; if the method 

 of fencing their grounds be faulty ; if the 

 improvements in common ufe are falfely 

 conftruded ; if the method of tillage be 

 more expenfive than neceffary, in ufmg a 

 waile of ftrength ; if manures are to be had 

 by digging, and yet remain untouched ; if 

 others are to be procured from town but 

 none brought ; if the breeds of cattle be 

 inferior to others ; and, in a "word, if a 

 thoufand other cafes of this fort, either 

 wholly or partially, deprefs the agriculture 

 of the neighbourhood, and prevent its 

 attaining that perfection of which it is 

 capable : — What is the gentleman farmer 

 to do ? — To fit dov>rn content with the 

 common evils of boors and clowns ? — No, 

 furely ; but to endeavour to eradicate falfe 

 ideas, by dilplaying a more perfed practice. 



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