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some of this unprofitable grass-land with Turnips, or other Boots, and 
green crops, scarcely needs any further detail of the advantages thus 
resulting, it being evident that less land would be required for Hay, 
more would be depastured, the same stock would be kept better or more 
might be kept upon the Farm ; there would be more employment for 
labourers, the consumer would be better supplied and the Farmer's 
profits would be greatly increased.* 
*In 1831 was published 'Observations on an Improved System of 
Agriculture,'- by William Smith, London, R. Hunter, 72 St. Paul's 
Churchyard, 8vo, 39 pp., price 2s. A perusal shows that it is not by 
Smith the geologist, however, and it is dated from The Prae, St. Albans. 
