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I know no method by which general improvement can

be more promoted, than by diſperſing the farmers of thoſe 1

counties, whoſe pradices are held in the higheſt eſtimation,

among thoſe parts of the kingdom on which the light of

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andry has never ſhone. This would introduce

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good hulſ into general pradice the Turnip Huſbandry of the Eaſtern diftri&ts, with all its concomitant âdvantages.

The ſoil and climate of the county of Somerſet is pe- culiarly well adapted to the cultivation of this root; and were the paſture lands leſs rich and produdive, neceſſity would oblige the farmer to have recourſe to this root for winter ſubſiſtence. At preſent, the quantity of land de- voted to this purpoſe is trifling indeed, and in moſt inſtances the hoe is never uſed, nor are turnips conſumed with any degree of œconomy.

Though the rent of the land in the elevated parts of this county may be conſidered high, there are advantages which more than compenſate; theſe are, its rich and LS quality in all ſeaſons, the facility with which it may be ploughed, the eaſy acceſs to marl, limeſtone, and coal, good- neſs of roads, vicinity to markets; and laſtly, the high price of produce. The laſt-mentioned advantage is alone ſuf- ficient to induce a refidence; for it frequently happens that corn ſells twenty per cent. dearer here than it does in the Eaſtern counties,

6thiy. Improve Stock by a Judicious selection of Males and Females for breeding, and be particularly careful to choose a Male handsome in those points wherein the Female

may be deficient. In this department of huſbandry, the farmers of Somerſet âre very inattentive, though they all acknowledge that the

proper focking of a farm is of the higheſt importance. DE In

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