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AGRICULTURE. 



BOOK I. 



of this scheme over the mode of clumping and surrounding every 

 place with a belt, to the exclusion both of the family farm and 

 the country. Though this wretched taste prevails everywhere 

 around him, and though he had already gone a certain length 

 in it himself, he with a great and liberal spirit instantly rejected 

 the remaining part of his plan, and adopted that which is here 

 recommended. At Hopton court ideas corresponding with this 

 principle were recommended in the design for laying out that 

 place as an ornamental farm of a particular kind, pasture and 

 orcharding being the chief products. I had the happiness of 

 seeing these plans fully approved of ; and every part of them is 

 carrying gradually into execution, under the proprietor's own 

 general superintendence, with my occasional visits. 



I proceed in the next place to give a few hints respecting 

 buildings for the different kinds of farms. 



1. Arable farms. — The situation of the buildings should, if 

 possible, be near the market road, near the centre of the 

 grounds, and either on an eminence or open space, so as to 

 command wind, or near a brook, so as to obtain the advantage 

 of water for machinery. The large expensive barns erected in 

 England may generally be dispensed with, the extra cost of 

 these barns would be much better laid out on a thrashing 



