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Till the price of cattle, indeed, has got to this height, it

seems scarce possible that the greater part, even of those lands

which are capable of the highest cultivation, can be completely

cultivated. In all farms too distant from any town to carry

manure from it, that is, in the far greater part of those of

every extensive country, the quantity of well cultivated land

must be in proportion to the quantity of manure which the farm

itself produces; and this, again, must be in proportion to the

stock of cattle which are maintained upon it. The land is

manured, either by pasturing the cattle upon it, or by feeding

them in the stable, and from thence carrying out their dung to

it. But unless the price of the cattle be sufficient to pay both

the rent and profit of cultivated land, the farmer cannot afford

to pasture them upon it; and he can still less afford to feed

them in the stable.