[ s 4 o ] 

 " may get a living." I believe I may fay with 

 the greateft propriety, that the fame young man, 

 by fo doing, could get a better living without the 

 farm than with it. And therefore would afk 

 you, Gentlemen, whether farmers ought to be ^o 

 treated, or whether this is the right way to en- 

 courage Agriculture, and to improve the value of 

 xftates ?* 



As to inftruments, I cannot tell what are ufed 

 in your part of the kingdom; but I have heard 

 that in Wales the ploughs are on fo bad a con- 

 flruclion, that they cannot hold them themfelves 

 to plough the land as it ought, without a driver. 

 And I am informed by a perfon, a very good 

 ploughman, who went into that country, that our 

 ploughmen could not ufe them. 



I hope the farmers in Somerfetfhire underfland 

 ploughing better than to employ a driver; for we 

 are at no fuch needlefs expence in our country. 



* We perfectly agree with this gentleman, that the methods of 

 letting farms, which he fo juftly cenfures in this and a former letter, 

 are very great difcouragements to Agriculture: and of fuch land- 

 ftewards as he has here defcribed, we can only fay, that the fewer 

 there are of them, the better it will be both for the proprietors anfi 

 the renters of farms. As there are no clafs of men more ufeful, 

 there are none who deferve more to enjoy the fruits of their labou^ 

 than farmer6. 



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