tSdo. On the Proper Size of Farms, 383 



1st, With refpetl to mechanics interfering with this fyf- 

 tem, there is hardly an inftance, though it would be much 

 more for their advantage, if they converted their pitiful pof- 

 feflions to the maintenance of a milch cow, or the rearing 

 of a young beaft, than, in their prefent wretched fyltem of 

 tillage, opprcjlmg themfclves, and difgracmg the country. 

 But, for this purpofe, it would be neccflary that their patches 

 were inclofed : But that would be by far too great an exer- 

 tion for their genius j and lo I fhall leave them to their own 

 mifmanagement. 



2^, Of fmall pafture farms in the occupation of tenants hav- 

 ing no other occupation. 



There cannot well be a very fmall farm of this defcrip- 

 tion, as the attention required would not be fufficient em- 

 ployment, neither would the grofit to be derived be a fuf- 

 ficient recompenfe for conftant attention. They mull neceC- 

 farily, therefore, be of greater extent than the fmall arable 

 farm, where there is always abundance of employment to 

 the little tenant ; and although there may be little recompenfe 

 to him as a master, yet he is generally underftood to be fuffi- 

 ciently remunerated for the labour which, as a jervant, he 

 beftows upon it. 



The fame circumftance which promotes the profperity or 

 a corn-farmer on an arable farm, and the confequent pro- 

 fperity of the country, will, I am perfuaded, operate in the 

 fame manner upon a cattle-farmer in a pafture farm, viz. 

 that the larger that the concern be, if the tenant has abilities 

 anfwerable, the more encerprifing will he become, and the 

 country will the more fpeedily be improved in the breed of 

 cattle, and melioration of pafbufe lands. 



3^, Of two or more farms lying contiguous, in the occupation 



of one tenant. 



That the tenant in this fituation will be more wealthy and 

 more intelligent, and hence, being more enterprifing, will be 

 more beneficial to the country, has already, in the foregoing 

 article, been noticed j in addition to which, the foUov/ing 

 remarks occur. 



A man will be able to manage a pafturf farm of greater 

 value and greater ftock, on a rich foil, than on a poorer one, 

 which muft bs more extenfive to yield the fame produce, 



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