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field is, in fome refpefl, public property ; and if 

 his crops fail through unfkilful management, what- 

 ever is loft by the owner is, in fome degree, a lofs 

 to the community at large. 



When I refledt on this, and confider how much 

 the crops are diminifhed through the miftaken no- 

 tions and obftinacy of the common farmers, efpe- 

 cially when they rent larger eftates than they have 

 ftrength to manage -, and when I view the almoft 

 immeafureable quantity of improveable land which 

 yet remains wafte and next to barren j 1 cannot but 

 agree to the fuppofition of Mr. Harte, that the 

 lands of England may be made to produce one- 

 fixth part more than they do : — a point this of 

 great national importance, amounting to near four 

 millions of money annually 1 



Whatever advantages may accrue to Gentlemen 

 from committing their eftates to the management 

 of fuch a fkilful and well-educated bailiff as hath 

 been above recommended, yet they ftiould not be 

 left wholly to him^ for experience hath too often 

 fhewn, that the integrity of a man*s heart does not 

 always keep pace with his underllanding. 



• Indolence, felf-intereft, pleafure, and other temp- 

 tations, may caufe him to negled his mafter's intereft 



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