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What they afford, being insufficient for the whole farm, will

naturally be reserved for the lands to which it can be most

advantageously or conveniently applied; the most fertile, or

those, perhaps, in the neighbourhood of the farm-yard. These,

therefore, will be kept constantly in good condition, and fit for

tillage. The rest will, the greater part of them, be allowed to

lie waste, producing scarce any thing but some miserable pasture,

just sufficient to keep alive a few straggling, half-starved

cattle; the farm, though much overstocked in proportion to what

would be necessary for its complete cultivation, being very

frequently overstocked in proportion to its actual produce.