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might be maintained on one third the land 

 apphed to that purpose/" Surely you will 

 acknowledge me as your coadjutor^ when you 

 find that much of my speculations are em- 

 ployed in creating new pastures^ by which 

 the agriculturist will be greatly relieved from 

 the load of cattle that you complain of. 



You also suggest a mode of increasing our 

 supply of animal food, ( the improvement of 

 our fisheries ) which, as you say, " would free 

 -some of the lands of the best quality now 

 applied to pasture/' — Will you not be grati- 

 fied to see these lands restored to the agricul- 

 turist, w^ien I find beyond your territories, 

 abundant pasture for these same cattle, as 

 you will soon see I do ? 



You call your favourite system of soiling to 

 your assistance, in recovering some of the 

 lands which ought to be applied to tillage : 

 you say, " you calculate, you can rear and 

 fatten a beast of sixty stone, on the produce 

 of two acres ; — probably six acres of pasture 

 would not supply an equal quantity;" and 

 you sustain your positions by fair deductions 

 from data, with which you are well acquainted. 



As your coadjutor^ I hope, in many instan- 

 ces, to recover even these two acres for you, 



