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I fhali, for thefe reafons, venture to re-« 

 commend the converting the moor inclo- 

 fures to grafs as foon as poflible ; and this 

 is done with amazing expedition by means 

 of the paring and burning hufbandry. 



The common farmers throughout all the 

 north, although their view is grafs land, 

 yet after paring, burning and liming, take 

 four, five or fix fucceffive arable crops, and 

 all but the firft, corn. This is execrable 

 hufbandry — it is the effect of avarice to 

 get as much as poflible from the land, and 

 as quick as poffible : after this, they lay 

 down to grafs ; an operation, which in 

 the hands of comm.on farmers is never well 

 performed, and yet the padures fo im- 

 proved, let from los. to 20 s. 



The variation from this condu6l, which 

 an improver mufl by all means purfue, is 

 to take only two arable crops, the fecond 

 oats, and with them to fow his grafs feeds. 

 By thefe means the grafs cannot fail of 

 being incomparable, for it inherits all that 

 prodigious fund of fertility which the far- 

 mers beftow on 4 or 5 crops of corn, ail 

 great ones. In this method, they would 

 silfo have lefs occafion to Hme fo often as 

 the common people do. 



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