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and Scotland, and are the moft valuable breed, for a moun= tainous diftrict, perhaps any where to be met with; but for a manufacturing country, where the paſture is ſuMciently rich, the Bakewell breed js undoubtedly preferable to every other; producing, from the ſame extent of herbage, a greater quantity of meat, and of a ſort peculiarly well calculated for general conſumption. In a manufäuring diſtrict alſo, it is extremely deſirable, to have a raw material of ſuch value as wool, on which the indußry of the people may be exerciſed, ſhould other branches fall of.:

Theſe General Obſeryations might be extended to a much greater length, and might include a number of other particu= lars: but if the waſte lands of the county are properly culti- Vatei—if draining is properly attended to—if the beſt ſpecies of oats and other grains are propagated—if the culture of tur= nips is carried to that extent of which it is capable—if the cattie of the country are improved, and regain their ancient eitimation—and, above all, if the beſt ſorts of /heep are ſpread over the county, Lancaſhire will have no reaſon to regret

the attention that has been paid to i¿s improvement by the Board of Agriculture.

I. Hints for the Improvement of other Counties.

THF attention of the people of Lancaſhire, has hitherto been principally devoted to the extenſion of mahufadtories; at the ſame time, an aQive and intelligent race of people, muſt always diſcover a number of particulars, by which its own agriculture, and that of its neighbours, may be improved. A variety of hints to that effe@, will be found in the preceding pages of this Report; but there is one point which requires to be particularly adyerted to, namely, the management of marle, in which this county ſeems to excel every other, and by imi- tating whoſe pradice, there is no part of the kingdom, where

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