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neceflary for the culture of arable lands docs not 

 increafe in proportion to their extent ; but in that 

 cafe, the extraordinary time employed is making a 

 trade of the produce, and not that which is barely 

 requifite to acquire a neceflary fubfiftences and 

 this may be increafed in any degree, even till their 

 whole time would not be fufEcient. 



Water-meadows, which alone may be deemed 

 truly fertile, req\iire daily care to water them at 

 lead fix montR^ in the year 5 and the harvefl alfo 

 requires much care. The culture of vines requires 

 much rnore attention and time; and it is therefore 

 fuppofed, that if a Vigneron can take care of a 

 certain number of arpents of vines, the farmer can, 

 with the fame time and trouble, attend to a farm 

 eight or ten times as large. 



I know very well, that the one requires cattle, 

 and the other does not ; but tliefe cattle, far from 

 being expcnfive, will, if properly managed, increafe 

 the gain of the farmer -, therefore, they muft not be 

 lo6ked upon as an expence. 



Corn is fubjedl: to many accidents, but vines are 

 fubjedl to many more; and thofe which the vine 

 fufFers, fometimes fpoil the vintage for feveral 



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