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and new area, and by novel measures, untried 

 by preceding improvers. 



You complain to me, that part of your 

 field is employed in a manner you do not like, 

 and lament that " that some of your land of 

 the best quality is applied to pasture and by 

 skilful calculation, compute the quantities of 

 animal and vegetable food, raised from equal 

 areas, by pasture^ and by your favourite mea- 

 sure of house soiling. 



You know that in this latter measure I am 

 a powerful coadjutor; — you asked me, at 

 Workington^ if I could assist you with soi/, 

 in the critical interval between the end of the 

 clover crops, and the coming in of turnips^ 

 when you were distressed for food for your 

 house cattle ; and you know I showed you in 

 that very period^ on my own meadows, and on 

 those of other friends, a fleece of grass far 

 superior to your best clover crops ; and my 

 friend. Sir James Stewart, has found by ac- 

 curate experiments, that his fiorin meadows 

 at Coltness, yield him a far greater quantity 

 of vegetable food, than his best turnip crops. 



You cannot reconcile yourself to the ap- 

 plication of so much good ground to pasture^ 

 and you assert, the whole cattle of England 



