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able to monopolize, as well as cultivate: andfome, 

 through an avaricious fpirit, would withhold from 

 marker* till corn, &c. advanced to a price that 

 would ftarve the reft of the people. I therefore 

 repeat it, the little farmer, whether he be a corn or 

 a dairy farmer, provided he prudently appropriates 

 his land to the production of the mod beneficial 

 crops, cannot receive too much countenance and 

 encouragement from the publick, not only to whofe 

 convenience, but fubfiftence and well-being, he de- 

 votes a flavifh and moft laborious life. 



I have already obferved, that the diftrefles of the 

 little corn-farmer are in part owing to the great ad- 

 vance of his rent; but whenever, in the viciffitude 

 of human affairs, the prices of grain fhajl fall to that 

 low price which a feries of fruitful years hath fome- 

 times produced, as for example, between 1730 and 

 1750, rents will tumble fail indeed, but unfortu- 

 nately the poor farmer muft tumble firfr. Corn 

 being once at the low price it fold at then, no de- 

 vice or artifice whatever could keep up rents to the 

 pitch they have attained at prefent. No routine of 

 crops yet propofed, though made with the greateft 

 judgment, would enable the little farmer to (land 

 his ground, and fatisfy his landlord. 



But 



