3 S4 ^" the Proper Size of Farms. 0£>. 



and will therefore require more exertion to overfce. The 

 quantity of land and quantity of ftock that a farmer may have 

 abilities to manage in a paflure farm, may be vaftly greater, 

 than in a farm under tillage •, as there are fewer fervants to 

 cverfee, and as the proceis of breeding and feeding cattle is 

 much lefs complex than that of raifmg corn. 



The effc£l on population, of uniting two or more pafture 

 farms into one, will be much the fame, as formerly ftated, 

 with regard to farms in tillage ; for, although the tenant may 

 be enabled to keep fewer herds, yet he will naturally choofe 

 that thefe (hould be married men, boarding in their own fa- 

 jnilie? : even were this to produce no increafe of population, 

 it ought to be held as beneficial to the country ; for the great 

 farmers herds have a better chance of getting full employ- 

 ment, than in a fmall farm tending a fmall flock, 



" The herd diminutive, of many hues." TiioMsow. 



V here they are little better than half idle : for a population 

 of idle people ought to be exploded ; as not only are the fa- 

 culties of thefe people themfelves locked up for want of ex- 

 ertion, but the money which their maintenance requires, is 

 thus diverted from the channels of enterprife and improve- 

 ment into which it might otherwlfe have flowed. 



^ihi Of Jtveral paflure farms, at a d'lftaius from each other, 

 in one tenant's occupation. 



The effects in this cafe are almoft the fame as if the farms 

 lay contiguous, provided each feparate farm has all the va- 

 rieties of pafture, and proper flicker for the cattle ; but if 

 this is not the cafe, it were better for the farmer (and fur 

 the public) that they lay conterminous to one another, as 

 they theretjy could afford accommodation, to the mutual ad- 

 vantage of the whole. So far, alfo, as lofs may arife from 

 the mafler not bci?ig able to fuperintend the whole, fo far 

 will there be a dlfadvantage in having difcant farms in 'paf- 

 ture, as well as diftant farms in tillage •, but, on the other 

 hand, as was before obferved, the farmer himfelf will be- 

 come more intelligent, in proportion as he has to traverfe a 

 greater range of country, from which he will the more readily 

 introduce or make improvements in the breed or management 

 of his-^ock. 



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