1 8oc. Ohjcrvat'ions on Expences of Farmings ^c. 265 



TO THE CONDUCTORS OF THE FARMEr's MAGAZINE. 



Ohfeyvations on Expeticcs of Farming ; on Ulanorial Clawis ; and 

 en Improvement of Entailed EjiatcSy l^c. 



GENTLEMEN, 



I HAVE perufed the firft Number of tlie Farmer's Magazine, 

 with much iatisfatSlion. The Ijitrodu6lion is a mafterly com- 

 pofition ; fo are many of the communications. 



The fpirit of invelligatinn, this pubhcation may raife, can- 

 not be difagreeable to the pubHfliers ; it could therefore have 

 been wiflied, in place of the animal charge attending a plough 

 and two horfes^ they had mentioned the quantity of land, of 

 a particular kind, thefc might labour, the expence, and the 

 produce, that one might fee what profit fliould reafonably 

 be expe£led. As it ftands, this is only part of an ac- 

 count j and mofl of the articles may be faid to be paid by 

 the farm itfelf, or furniihed by it, which amounts to the fame 

 thing *. 



There is another thing may probably appear very fimple to 

 many of your readers, the v/ant of knov/ledge of which, has, 

 lail; year, caufed a good deal of lofs, viz. the befl mode of pre- 

 ferving apples through JVinter. This, the people who deal in 

 large quantities muft certainly know : an account of it would 

 be agreeable to many of your readers. 



As to manorial claims^ I am afraid your correfpondent has 

 only looked at one fide of the pi6iure ; and as he admits he 

 has not gone to the origin of them, his hints muft be defec- 

 tive : He docs not even feem to, look forward with much pe- 

 netration. As to the game ; admitting, for the fake of dif- 

 cuflion, tiiat all the game-laws hitherto ena6led in favour of 



proprietors. 



Remark by ciie of ths ConduBors . » 



* If tiic account prefented, p. 46, be correifl:, (and we believe it is near tTie 

 truth), what is faid above, by our refpc(flable correipondcnt, is rathtr out of 

 place. The Rural EconBir.lJi proftiTed to give no more than the annual charge 

 of a plough and two horfes, and his ftatement includes every article : fo cannot, 

 with the leaft propriety, be confidered as " only part of an account. " That fe- 

 veral of the charges are for articles furnifhed out of the farm produce, is no ob- 

 jeftion; for, if not confumcd in this manner, they would have juft drawn a* 

 much money at market. It might, with equal truth, have been alleged, that a 

 fariper pays notliicg for liis farm, when the rent is delivered in kind. 



