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growth, that I am raiher of opinioa they would 

 produce more corn than if conftantly planted in the 

 ufual very imperfed manner. 



The grcatcft obftacleto this mode of managing a 

 fmall farm (fay from 2cl. to 6ol. per annum) is, 

 the confined or narrow circumflances of the occu- 

 piers of fuch farms. In general their capitals are 

 ipuch too fmall to carry on their bufinefs to any 

 advantage in the prefent mode of management ^ but 

 the mode recommended would require an increafe 

 of capital to the tune of 200I. or 300I. Lefs than 

 400I. would not ftock a farm in this way of 60I. per 

 annum at any rate^ but a capital of 500I. would be 

 vaftly more convenient, and indeed much more to 

 the farmer's advantage. 



If the improvements propofed are fo interefiing 

 ,^ to the individuals immediately concerned, how very 

 important are its effeds in a political view, as it re- 

 " fpeds the community at large ! If eight acres of 

 land, by Ikill and management, can be rendered as 

 productive and as profitable as forty-eight acres, 

 whofe natural produce is of a medium value, it is 

 virtually increafing the extent of territory in a fix- 

 fold proportion i for if every acre of land could by 

 art and induftry be made to yield i\x times the 

 quantity of produce it does at prefent, the whole 



might 



