OF SOMERSETSHIRE«. SLZ tou 19th. Às in every point of view this county appears 4 tn.< L E from its ſoil and ſituation to be better adapted to graſs than gul arable, it deſerves enquiry, whether ſtock could not profit- : M ably be kept on grafs land alone, without the aid of winter 1 the i roots. The argument for ploughing ariſes from a wiſh of lnue| having ſtraw to make manure, and turnips to ſupport ſtock ld be in the winter ſeaſon. But whenever the plough is put into VEAS, the hand of the generality of farmers, the land is from that

time in a ftate of degradation, and its value reduced at leaſt t the 10S. per acre, in compariſon with contiguous graſs land, s , and i Grafs, therefore, ſhould be conſidered as the ultimate veri- i improvement of land in the Weſtern part of the county of e Somerſet. [ Pre- bear E E—

nud qu| THIS county does not raiſe grain ſufficient for its con- | fumption, nor are the climate and ſoil of many parts thereof ib a favourable to corn farming; yet, were all the improvements din before ſuggeſted to take place, there cannot be a doubt but that the produce of the ſoil might be increaſed at leaſt one- dub third. e| The adyanced rent which might be produced by draining “.

the marſhes, and by inclofing and cultivating the common fields and waſte lands, may, according to the moſt moderate calculation, be thus eſtimated:—

{l) and No. of Acres.| Deſcription.|] Increaſed Rent.| Total Increaſe. rotten.; ieS ds Le 4 30,000 Marſh lands OTS EO 22,500

treat 20,000 Common ñeld O 5 O 5„000 jot does 0 5,000 Uncultivated OO 16,250 per ann. waſte EE equently| 43,750 i H To