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r8. Whether there are any common fields, and whether any diviſion of them is propoſed?

19. What is the difference of rent, or produce, between com- mon fields and incloſed lands?

20. What is the extent of waſte lands, and the improvement of which they are moſt capable, whether by being planted, con- verted into arable, or into paſture land?

21. What is the rate of wages, and price of labour, and what are the hours at which labour commences and ceafes, at the dif- ferent ſeaſons?

22. Whether proper attention is paid to the draining of land, particularly the fenny part of it, and what ſorts of drains are com- monly made uſe of?

23. Whether paring and burning is practiſed, and how is it managed and found to anfwer?

24. Whether the country is well wooded, and whether the woodlands are kept under a proper ſyſtem?

25. What is the price of proviſions, and whether the price is likely to be ſteady, to riſe, or to fall?

26. What is the ſtate of the roads both public and parochial, whether they are in good order or capable of improvement?

27. What is the ſtate of farm houſes and offices, whether in general they are well ſituated and properly conſtructed?

28. What is the nature of the leaiés commonly granted, and the covenants uſual between landlord and tenant?

29. To what extent have commerce or manufactures been car- ried on in the diſtrict, and have they had either good or bad ef- fects on its agriculture?

30. Are there any practiſes in the diſtrict, that could be of ſer- vice in other places?

31. Are thierc any ſocieties inſtituted in the diſtrict for the im- provement of Agriculture?

32. Whether the people ſeem to have a turn for improvements, or how ſuch a ſpirit could beſt be excited?

33. What improvements can be ſuggeſted either in regard to the ſtock or the huſbandry of the diſtrict:

34. Are there any obſtacles to improvements, and in what manner can they beſt be removed?

35. What are the names, deſcriptions, and addreſs of thoſe proprietors, or farmers, who are the moſt active, or the moſt ſkilful improvers in the diſtrict, and who are the moſt likely to be uſeful correſpondents to the Board of A griculture?

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