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The want of weekly or monthly markets, in one or more of the principal towns and villages, 18 another circumſtance very diſcouraging to agriculture aad induſtry in general.

The weights and meaſures in this county, and others ad« joining to it, not being either accurate or uniform, 15 a cir- cumſtance that may be likewife deemed a loſs.

The rivers in ſome places are not ſuſliciently embanked, which defe& prevents the cultivation of ſome low grounds by tillage, and may permit the produce of both graſs and corn land occaſionally to be deſtroyed.

The unneceſſary number of roads through ſome farms, muſt render the encloſing of ſuch more expenſive than other- wiſe it might be, and muſt therefore prove an obſtacle to the ſpread of this improvement, which is well adapted to the condition of the country, in ſo far as ſuitable fences might increaſe the warmth, and diminiſfh the wetneſs, of many

felds-.

Were green crops more generally raiſed, for the purpoſes not of fattening live ſtock only, but for carrying forward the young rearing ſtock during winter, by giving them occaſion ally a ſmall ſupply of green or ſucculent forage along with their dry ſtraw, a conſiderable advantage would be gained. The hay crop from the(own ſeeds of red clover and ryegraſs, ;nſtead of being fold from the poſſeſſion, might be profitably expended in the ſupport of ſtock, during that period when the winter green crops are conſumed, and before the graſs be ready in early ſummer. By this mode of management, many advantages would reſult to the huſbandman. His ſtock would grow as much in two Years as they do in three,

would be more healthy, would produce in time a larger and more