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ing. 
It ought alfo to be obferved that a oan portion of the 
manor or eftate was fet apart for the purpofe of producing 
natural or meadow grafs to be made into hay. This meadow 
grafs was divided among the farmers, in proportion to the 
extent of their farms, either by lot or fome kind of under- 
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fidered that during this long interval a fpirit for agricultural 
improvement feems at different periods to have become pretty 
eneral. In regard to the modes of cultivation which are 
adopted in refpe& to them, it is only neceffary to remark, that 
previous to the introduction of turnips and artificial graffes, 
the almoft univerfal praétice was to have three-fourths in 
grain, and one-fourth in fallow ; and although, in fome 
places, alterations have taken place, yet the inftances are 
very rare in which a better fyftem is purfued. 
Alfo the arable lands are divided into four fields as nearly 
equal as poffible, and each of thefe fields (however many 
have an intereft in the cultivation) muft, by the 
be wholly under the fame kind of crop. 
of the legiflature, the fyftem is entirely abolifhed.’”’ 
It is therefore evident, ‘‘ that the open-field lands, which 
in fome counties amount to above one-third of the whole, 
are deficient in point of produce at leaft one half, when com- 
ear fti 
have been brought 
e Board of Agriculture, which, 
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balks. s after 
arrangement had taken place among the parifhioners), one 
of the farmers, occupying fixteen acres of thefe common 
Ids, procured in the month of May a large flock of Jean 
fheep, which he turned on the clover crops, being then nearly 
in bloom, the greater part of which they devoured. An- 
other inftance of the impoffibility of parifhioners being able 
to arrange any mode by which improvements can be intro- 
duced, which individuals are bound to adhere to without the 
fanGtion of parliament, is alfo detailed in the fame report, in 
the following words: The parifh of Steeple Claydon con- 
tains 2500 acres of ftrong wet clay. e cuftom 1s here, to 
fall 
of the legiflature, and to meet the approbation of all the 
while 
to exift, 
improving the agriculture of the coun 
But, to arrange general equitable 
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country which have for their obje& the 
abundance of the means i 
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