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for theep food; and the butter made from paftures where it grows is generally efteemed excellent.

To be read ofter Line 19, Page 835.—Mr. Salifbury thinks this an extremely ufeful plant, which makes good pafturage and hay, but which thrives only ina loamy foil. [t is frequently found wild in wafte lands where the foil is good; and, in fact, he confiders it as a juft criterion to judge of the fertility of a foil by.

To be read at the end of Seétion X1. Page 901.—The bufinefs of hiring and ftocking farms deferves more attention than is commonly beftowed upon it. For the prefent purpofe, it is however only neceffary to place before the farmer the principal circumflances which ought to regulate his conduct, as the fubje& has been very fully handled by an agricultor of much_practicak experience*,~'

The changes in regard to farming property are in-general, in the more fouthern parts of the kingdom, made about Michaelmas. In thefe the farmer fhould delibe- rately confider the nature of the foil, the climate, the relative fituation in refpect to the convenience of improvements and markets; the fize in regard to his capital, the man- ner in which the inclofures are difpofed with refpect to each other, the management of the former tenant, the covenants by which he is to be fettered, and, finally, the amount and arrangements in regard to rent. Having made thefe confiderations with proper minutenefs and attention, weighing their advantages and difadvantages in his mind, without fuffering himfelf to be influenced by probable caufes, he may be en- abled to bring their benefits into competition with their difadvantages, and to compare the former with the amount of rent which he is required to pay, in fuch a manner as to decide on the propriety or impropriety of his engaging them. In this matter great care fhould however be taken, that real inconveniences or difficulties be neither too much magnified nor too greatly defpifed, fo as to produce a too hafiy or too protracted decifion; from both of which, evils may proceed. By the latter, the fecuring of an advantageous farm may often be lofi, while the former may lead to. the engaging of one that is not by any means adapted to his circumftances. In thefe cafes the farmer fhould never fuffer himfelf to be too much influenced in his deter- minations by the circumftances of the preceding occupiers, as fo much depends upon

* Mr. A. Young.