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farmer should have an orchard, has been 
long the theme of almost every agricultural 
writer for tlhrty years past ; but so slow is 
the progress of speculative improvements, 
that the pra6lice, however good, has not been 
far extended. 
' Planting apple and pear trees in or near 
hedges would be a bad practice, as the corn 
and fences would be constantly troddtn 
down until the pracHce sliould becoUiC uni- 
versal. 
It net having been the practice, for a series 
^ears past, for those who cut do wm timber 
to plant any in its stead, it cannot in many 
counties now be procured for ordinary pur- 
poses ; dependence for it consequently rests 
upon an importation from foreign countries, 
burthened with very heavy impolitic duties. 
Phe condition of the cottager we have already 
enlarged upon ; therefore it will be only ne- 
cessary here to observe, that he must be an 
additional renter of land, if he is to keep 
and maintain goats, pigs, poultry, asses, &c. 
