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the preceding articles are calculated as 

 moderately, 1 think, as they can be: ioj. 

 a flieep profit, on good breed, with plenty 

 of winter food, and good after pafture, is 

 the lovvell: one can eftlmate. The im- 

 provement of the oxen pays but 3 /. an 

 acre for the turnips, although a common 



piice unhoed not near fo well limed, 



and with no flieep folding, is 4/. and 5 /. 

 and nothing is reckoned for the ftraw j 

 and notwithlianding the grafs being richly 

 worth 2 5 J. an acre. But on the contrary, 

 the expences are laid in every article un- 



ufualiy high fo that there can be no 



doubt of the moderation of the whole 

 efiimate. 



The firft: improved farm of 80 acres, is 

 now to be let. The rent upon which I 

 fliall calculate is 20s. an acre. I mud 

 obferve thereon, that from many trials, 

 in a flile far lefs complete, the common 

 improvement of fuch moors is to 15 s, an 

 acre j but before the reader condemns my 

 rife of 5^. let him confider the following 

 circumftances : 



FIrJl, The farmers, and little moor-fide 

 improvers, who make their inclofures worth 

 155. take 4, 5, or 6 fucceffive crops of corn, 

 and lay to grafs v/ith the lafl j now let the 



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