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PR O DUCTI ON 



Sect. XVI. 9. 2 



that the viviparous buds become lefs vigorous, and the oviparou 



more numerous, and forwarder in their flowering ; and for the pro- 

 duction of earlier as well as of larger crops all fuch luxuriant vegeta- 

 bles fhould be fown early in the vernal feafon, or in the autumnal 

 months, if they are not too tender to bear the winter frofts. 



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covered with fern» heath, or gorfe. 



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IX. ^e ft ion concerning general enclofure* 



The political advantage or difad vantage of the general enclofure of a 

 country belongs to this place, as it more particularly affeds the pro- 

 du£lion of the cerealia, or corn-agriculture. 



There can certainly be no objed:ion to the enclofure of commons, 

 or at leafl to the divifion of them into private property, as they are be- 

 lieved to produce more than tenfold the quantity of fuilenance to 

 mankind, if they are employed in agriculture, or even in pafturage, 

 than by nourifhing a few geefe, (heep, or deer, in their uncultivated 



flat 



2. The advantage of enclofing paflure-lands, or meadows, can not 

 be doubted ; as the management of fattening cattle, of milch-cows, 

 iheep, and horfes, becomes fo much ealier ; as well as the more con- 

 venient ufe of the aftermath, when the hay is carried away. 



3. The lands alfo appropriated to the production of garden vegeta- 

 bles and fruit, as well as to the production of other perennial plants, 

 which are ufed in the arts, as hemp, flax, madder, woad, rhubarb ; 

 and of the efculent roots or herbage raifed for the confumption of cat- 

 tle, as turnips, potatoes, carrots, cabbages, certainly require to be 

 cnclofcd. 



4. X^e political queftlon therefore finally concerns only the arable 

 lands, and aflcs Amply, whether a general enclofure ofarable lands be 



favourable or unfavourabl 



to th 



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fperity of the country, which muft depend on the comparative quan- 

 tity of nutritive proviiion, which is likely to be produced from the 

 different modes of its cultivation. 



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