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niight be rendered capable of fupporting fix times 

 the number of the prefent inhabitants. 



But this is far from being the whole of the ad- 

 vantage that will accrue from it. It will not only 

 jncreafe the quantity of provifions as aforefaid, but 

 it will alfo find abundance of employment for the 

 poor labourer and his family. In this refpefl dairy 

 farms are in a manner of no ufc; they afford little 

 or no employment at all for the poor labourers. 

 Within a few miles of me lives a dairy- man, who 

 milks conftantly between twenty and thirty cows. 

 He has no wife, keeps only one maid-fervant, has 

 neither man nor boy to aflifl him, and only hires ^ 

 woman in the neighbourhood to affift in milking 

 night and morning, for which he pays her ifd. or 

 i6d. per week. This is his whole expence in the 

 management of his dairy 5 fcarce a tenth part of his 

 rent J whereas every arable acre, cultivated with 

 potatoes, &c. as above, will coft fowr or f}vie tirpes 

 as much as the rent of the land they grow on. 

 What an amazing difference doth this make to the 

 poor of a populous country, and alfo to thofe who 

 muft either find them employment, or maintain 

 ^em without any ! 



I have often employed a poor fa^pily in planting 

 potatoes, and alfo in following the plough and 



picking 



