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articles, as a little butter, a few fowls of different kinds, 
eggs, &c.—articles, by the conftant furnifhing of which, 
this kind of farmer is expected to keep down the general 
prices, and at the fame time to get a comfortable living for 
himfelf and family. The fituation moft proper for fuch a 
farmer would be in a light foil, eafily turned with a light 
plough by a pair of oxen, or two cheap horfes, and in the 
neighbourhood of a market-town, with which he could have" 
eafy intercourfe for vending his produtions, and for bring- 
ing back rhanure, of which, from the fmallnefs of his means 
and the flock of cattle he keeps, he would often ftand in 
need; for fuch a fmall farm, managed to beft account, 
fhould in fa& be confidered and treated as a large garden, 
To cultivate in this manner fuch fmall farms, would be 
mutually advantageous to the cultivator and to the neigh- 
bouring town, by keeping the latter continually clear of 
unwholfome efiluvia, from neglected dunghills, drains, and 
flagnant places. In fuch fituations, thé fmallarable farmer, 
occupying from §0 to 100 acres, if cleanly and induftrious, 
will always be found a moft refpetable and ufeful member 
of fociety. 
Small grazing and dairy farms may alfo be confidered. as 
moft advantageoufly placed in fimilar fituations.: The top- 
dreffing, to be eafity procured from towns, would contribute 
equally to the produétivenefs of pafture. And perhaps it 
may be held as a general rule, that arable or mixeckfarms, 
if ufefully very large at all, fhould be extended in fize néarly 
in proportion to the diftance from large towns and cities. 
Some’ particular circumftances, of -a local nature, may fur- 
nifh exceptions to this general rule; but a found general 
_ rule isnot rendered the lefs important by neceffary exceptions. 
If the quantity of grain and butchers’ meat, produced on 
fuch an altered fyftem of divifion, may not be expected to 
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