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General view of the agriculture of the county of Somerset : with observations on the means of its improvement. Drawn up in the year 1795, for the consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By John Billingsley, Esq; ... and now re-printed with considerable additions and amendments, .. / John Billingsley
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OF SOMERSETSHIRE, 297

A RECAPITULATION OF THE HINTS FOR IMPROVEMENT, ALREADY SUGGESTED 1x 78x PRECEDING PAGES, WITH SOME

ADDITIONAL REMARKS.

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ift. Tncloſe and cultivate all Waſte Lands ſuſceptible of Ilm-

provement, and divide and incloſe the Common Fields,

ERY few gentlemen of landed property in this county

have ſhewn that attention to the advancement of

rural œconomy, or to the improvement of agriculture, which

a ſcience of ſuch importance merits: this is the more ex-

traordinary, as their own intereſt is ſo deeply involved, and

as great examples have been ſhewn them by the nobility and gentry of other counties, and even by Majeſty itſelf.

Kt is no uncommon thing for untitled gentlemen to ap- prentice the younger branches of their famlly to trade, for five or ſeven years: And why not to agriculture? Tt can- not be becauſe the former is a more reſpectable occupation than the latter. I rather think, it is becauſe the acquire- ment of knowkdge in the one is confidered as more dif- icult than in the other. The general opinion ſeems to be, that any one may become a farmer: How egregiouſly are they miſtaken who think thus! I bave known both,

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