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ftock is a ferious evil. It will depend much on fituation and local circumftances+ the benefit of procuring manures, or litter to make dung, may in fome places be very great, in others much Iefs: but not to be able to profit by every favourable opportunity that may attend the fpot on which a farmer is fixed, muft be highly dif advantageous.‘To irrigate land is an expenfive operation; but to omit or poftpone it, for want uf money for the undertaking, is to lofe perhaps the capital advantage
ofafarm. Cafes of this fort might be greatly multiplied; and there is not one
that does not call on the farmer for an ample capital.”
The fame able author jufily remarks, that“ of all farms, a warren is hired with the fmalleit capital; but that there are marfhes in Lincolnfhire ftocked at the rate of above 3ol. per acre. And the annual expenfe of many hop-grounds amounts to 30]. and the capital above 601.”
He fuppofes that“ if a farmer docs not make ten per eent. on his capital, he mutt either have a bad farm or bad management, or the times muft be unfavourable, He ought, he thinks, to make from twelve to fifteen per cent. Some farmers make more, when corn is at a fair price.”
Befides proper attention being beftowed in thefe different refpects, the farmer fhould conftantly take care that the live ftock be of fuch kinds as are beft adapted to the nature and fituation of the land, as, without due regard in. this particular, great lofs may be conftantly fuflained. It is never advifable for him to have recourfe to the more fine or fafhionable, breeds, except where the nature of the foil is well fuited to them, and other conveniences fully juftify their introduCtion,
To be read after Line 18, Page 836.—The Birds-foot Trefoil has been found ufe- ful for cultivation in meadows which are inclined to moifture, as growing to a great height, and affording good hay. It is cultivated in Herefordthire as pafturage for fheep*.
* Withering’s Botanical Arrangement.
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