ENCLOSING, FENCES, GATES. 5H 
improving live stock; and increasing the produce of 
butcher’s meat, hides, and wool ; which last being 
staple commercial articles, find employment for an 
additional population in manufacturing articles which 
are sure to find a market. 
I remember the late Jos. Wilkes, Esq. of Measham, 
Derbyshire, who was a deep thinker, and well ac¬ 
quainted with commercial and political, as well a£ 
agricultural economy; maintained in a time of scar¬ 
city, that it was a less evil to import grain, than the 
raw materials of manufacture, particularly as such 
grain was paid for by the export of our manufactured 
goods. 
Mr. Pomeroy says, 4 ‘ the lands are in general enclosed; 
here are, however, some considerable tracts in open 
fields, the most extensive are in the neighbour¬ 
hood of Bredon, Ripple, and to the east of Worcester, 
The advantages from enclosing common fields, have 
been evidently very considerable ; some few objec¬ 
tions have been started, but they do not appear, on the 
whole, to have considerable rveight: the rent has al¬ 
ways risen, and mostly in a very great proportion; 
the increase of produce is very great, the value of 
stock has advanced almost beyond conception; in one 
parish alone, where the quantity enclosed has been 
pretty considerable, it is stated, on unquestionable 
authority, to have amounted, in sheep and wool only, 
to full 10001. a year. The improvements that may be 
made in stock in general, if properly attended to, are 
too obvious to be insisted on : it may be said in gene¬ 
ral terms, that there is but one opinion throughout 
the county on this subject; indeed it is in enclosures 
alone, that any improvement in the line of breeding in 
general can be made. 
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