JtJoo. On the Pi'oper Size of Farms . 3^5 



Head III. 



Of Arable atid Pasture United. 



Whatever has been faid refpe£ling the fize of farms, in 

 the two former heads, is equally applicable to this ; the lar- 

 ger that the farms are, the more intelligent and enterprifmg 

 will the farmer himfelf be ; and hence, from his more fpi- 

 rited and judicious exertions, the community at large will 

 derive a greater advantage. 



This mode, or fyftem of farming, is the mod judicious of 

 the whole, as it promotes the intereft of all parties concern- 

 ed, the proprietor, the tenant, and the public at large, more 

 than either of the two modes feparately. It promotes the 

 interefl of the proprietor, by affording him a greater rent : 

 It promotes the intereft of the tenant ; becaufe he v/ill be 

 able to manage a greater extent of land, than in a farni 

 wholly in tillage ; and he will have more intercourfe with 

 the world, than in a farm wholly in pafhure ; and hence, per- 

 forming more bufinefs, and being more enlightened, he will 

 become more wealthy : Finally, it promotes the intereft o£ 

 the public ; becaufe a greater proporrion of the produce wlU 

 be brought to market, and even a greater crop produced. 

 This arifes from two caufes : ist^ There will be fewer unpro- 

 dudlive cattle to eat up the produce at home : 2^, The lands 

 being alternately in tillage and in grals, they will be kept iu 

 better condition ; and the crops of corn, and of hay or paf- 

 ture, will be more luxuriant, and of a better quality. 



With refpeO: to popidatio?iy this fyftem is unfavourable in 

 one cafe, and favourable in another. It is unfavourable iu 

 the cafe of converting a farm, that had been wholly in tillage, 

 into part tillage, and part pafture j for pafture-land always re- 

 quires fewer people to manage it, than lands in tillage ; but, 

 for the fame reafon, it is favourable to, or increafive of popu- 

 lation, when pafture lands are converted to the production of 

 grain. In a great proportion of the beft lands of Englaiid, ic 

 would be highly for the advantage of all parties, that this fyf- 

 tem were adopted, inftead of the grazing fyftem, which pre- 

 vails without variation. In Scotland, however, the cafe is 

 different ; there, the greater part of the arable lands, which 

 formerly were kept wholly under the plough, have been molt 

 judicioully improved, from the introduction of this alternate 



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