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and eje6ling him from the prcmifes. But 'what is 

 the farmer to do, if he cannot find a farm in his 

 own neighbourhood fuitable to his capital ? Shall 

 he remove into another county, an entire ftranger, 

 or commence day-labourer, or ftarve ? 



The modern praftice of throwing feveral fmall 

 farms into one, is much to be lamented as a na- 

 tional evil in every view -, and calls loudly for the 

 regulation of the legiflature. 



But to return to our young farmer, tranfplanted 

 from the nurfery, where his mind received its firft 

 cultivation, unto the fpot where he is fuppofed to 

 fix his refidence. 



While under inftru6lion, he was taught to form 

 a pretty good judgment of the qualities, fuch as 

 the tenacity, drynefs, or moifture of different fields, 

 fi-om the herbage they fpontaneoufly produce ; he 

 will, therefore, immediately perceive which are moft 

 proper to be frfi under tillage, in order that tbe 

 cjlate may not he impoverijhed^ The want of atten- 

 tion to this circumftance has kept many a man 

 poor all his days, under a notion that the beft 

 ground will carry one or two good crops of ex- 

 haufting corn at firft, and fo far prove of immediate 

 great gain 3 not confidering that it generally proves 



a future 



