: DCY ae aud lec 
“tenfive improve nee 
Mr. Young, in his\Shropfhire- Tour, has 
fiated, that the County of Efiex comprifés 
1,249,600 acres, of which the whole rent- 
al’ 
13 _9340,000l, which aggregate rent ave- 
races, per acre, 148. The proportion of 
the value of land here to that of the county 
im general, is eatily explained. The whole 
‘Ay 
extent of the parifh is about 2773 acres 5 
the total rent coll.cted frem th eo 
documents appears to be 32-721. (m aking 
the deduction of rol. for tlie manfions o 
two or three gen vilemen) the rent ‘of the 
land is 228.4. per acre Bigot 
Et would be of lietle. moment to fate 
in this way the particular circumitances 
of a finall di@riG:, were it not that from 
fuch few facts fume ufeful, 
vations would fyniheti fale arife; and by 
adhering clotely tc fuch taéle as the bafis, 
we avoid the feducticn of unouided theory. 
What is here faid of this tcact is appli- 
cable, ina great degree, fathe predica- 
ment of the county. ce Eilex in general, 
and in many reipecis to 2A RECON agri- 
culture of the mgd: 
I am not fond of inageRing the expedi- 
ence of Adts of Parliament for every tem- 
al inconvenience that arifes: 
but there is a power referved by the con- 
fitution of chis coun ir¥ wit eee fenatorial 
medigtion, by the direction of which ex- 
night‘be produced ; 
the eniploymert of (eilful mineralogifts S5 
who would examine with agricultural 
views the fubfireta of the earth, would be 
jn a much higher degree beneficial to foci- 
ety, than the lebors of itinerant foffilifts and 
of antiquarians (tumbling over the fubter- 
ranean ruins of Herculaneum and Pom- 
pei. ( 
That univerfal parliamentary {pecific 
has, among other al at , been recommend- 
by agricultural empyricifm for the fup- 
oly of new laws between the landicrd and 
tenan at, when the &aiute-bock is already 
Lo: ded with a vaft farrago of provifions on 
the tubdject ; what is gener rae required in 
matters re lating to buyer and ‘feller is 
ryer and feller only, landlord and te- 
fgoukd be confidered),that both fhould 
eft unGiackled by authority ; that the 
former times may not pre- 
dern difeoveries, 
onan over caution 
and this. venerable igh arance of pati tim 
have entailed upon us, are the relistione 
on the rotation ‘of preduce 5) the leafes, fti- 
pulating for the cruel deniai to nature of 
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’ ¢he exercife of her powers of fructification 
triennially, prevent the adoption of the 
new fyftem of hufbandry, which enables a 
farmer, by the employment of the mu feular 
Tih ee 
general cbfer- . 
(Feb. ee 
power of animals, to keep his land free 
from noxious weeds, without the confider- 
able lo!s of one-third of his produce. 
Such claufes likewife preclude the in- 
troduétion of lucerne, the artificial grafies 
in general, and green gs ks 
Mie fonrans improves evory year of its. 
growth, but the third year’s iaiow muft de- 
Htroy it; it may be cut fix times im the 
cour/e of the fummerx feafon, but the leafes 
require, that one fixth of that produce 
fiiould only be celiected. 
I have contraéted an utter contempt for 
al! politico-agricultural rhapfodies, on ac- 
count of the vanity and confidence with 
which they have been recently diffufed ; 
but I could’ not ‘avoid introducing ik 
concife hints. 
It is not improbable, I may at a future 
time impart fome obfervations on this 
neighbourhcod, more to the tafe of the 
artift and the antiquarian. I am, Sir, 
Thoydon Garnen, Your's, &c. 
Dee. 37, 1799 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magaziue. 
SIR, 
F Mr. Hacket (vol. viit. 
pleafe to confult 
p. 261 and 423, he will find his queries 
refpeting Hand-miils ina great meafure 
anticipated. He will find too, that the 
corre{pondents to wham he is refpettfully 
referred, have tried the experiment, and are 
both of opinion’ that hand-mills will not 
aniwer. And, indeed, when it is remem- 
p. 965) will 
bered, that the obftacle to be removed is 
nearly as.great as the power which can be 
applied for the purpofe, the fact is felf- 
evident. 
Inftead, therefore, of wafting time and 
expence in attempting to invent hand- 
mills, it feems much better to attend to 
the hints which the latter of the above- 
quoted cerrefpondents ¢p. 423) has fug- 
gefted refpecting horfe-mills.. Such ma- 
chines could fcarcely fail of anfwering 
every purpofe they aré wanted for; and 
might be conftcusted upon various feales, 
{o as to anfwer for one, or for halfa dozen 
families. The principle upon which they 
are made is known already; and if it 1s 
thought defective, a premium from the 
truly patriotic Society of Arts, &c. or 
from aiy other refpectable quarter, would 
foon excite the attention and endeavours of 
the ingenious to make the machine perfect, 
‘The “object certainly is of great confe- 
quence, but more efpecially at prefent, 
when corn is equally dear and bad. If a 
few families could join in the charge of 
erecting 
J.D, Covurer,. 
your third volume,’ 
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