37^ ^'^ ^-^'^ Proper Size of Farms, Oft. 



FOB. THE farmer's MAGAZINE. 



y^n Ejjay on the Proper Size cf Farms. 



This will beft appear fi-om obferving the effecls of the dif- 

 ferent clafTes of farms as at prefent exiftiiig, and which may 

 be arranged under the following heads : 



I. Of Farms altogether under T/V/fl^^. 



II. Of Farms altogether in Pasture. 



III. Of Farms partly iti Tillage^ and partly in Pasture. 



Head I. 



Of farms alt'ogethci' under tillage^ yet including as much 

 pafture as may ferve the milch-cows for the fam.ily-ufe alone. 



Thefe may again be fubdivided under the following clafles : 



\sty Of fmall farms in the occupation of tnechanics. 



idy Of fm.all farms in the occupation of hushandmeny having 

 no other profeflion. 



3^/, Of tiuQ or more farms contiguous, cultivated by one 

 farmer. 



^thy Of fcveral farms feparated from one another, but in 

 one man's occupation. Firft, then, 



Offmall Farms in the Occupation of Mechanics. 



Thefe are generally to be met with in the vicinity of towns 

 or large villages ; there are fome examples of them alfo in 

 the fmaller villages fcattered over the country, in which the 

 Wright, the: fmith, the webfter, or the futor, have their bit 

 of land. 



Ihe hufoandry of all thefe, without a fingle exception, is 

 bad ; the more inexcufable, when it happens to be in the im- 

 mediate vicinity of a populous town, where, from market and 

 manure, they ought to be in the bell (late : but there is an 

 inherent vice in this fyftem, w-hlch no fituation can counter- 

 balance. For agriculture, in fuch hands, can never be more 

 than a fecondary obje£l, or rather a by-job altogether : But, 

 unhappily, this is not all the mifchief ; for even their primary 

 profcifion fufFers in their unavoidable dill:ra£lion of attention 

 between the different occupations : And thus, from com- 

 mencing their agricultural career, as bad hulbandmen, they 



commonly 



