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aperegate produce of as many well-cultivated acres, as are 
often loft to the publick by bad farmers, in one extenfive 
parifh; the conclufion is obvious, that more is frequently 
loit to the community in fuch a parifh than would fuffice to 
render completely comfortable all the poor in two fuch 
parifhes, were their families doubly numerous! The em- 
ployment and the produce are loit together; population is 
checked; difgrace is tranfmitted from father to fon; and 
human mifery is left (and, unlefs gentlemen interpofe a more 
watchful attention, will be left) to complain without re-- 
medy.* The zational fcale of this grievance is next to be 
confidered; and who, without indignation, can endure the 
picture? 
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* Few are the farms, of any confiderable extent, on which it 
would not be godd weconomy, and conftantly profitable, to keep at 
leaft one diligent man wholly employed through the year in remov. 
ing thorns, brambles, docks, and thiftles; cleaning ditches, opening 
drains, mending fences, cutting hedges, {preading mole-hills, and 
the droppings of manure, &c._ And fhould thefe various objects 
prove too few for his employment, (which is not very probable) the 
trimming and turning hills of compoft, fo as to prevent weeds from 
growing and fhedding their feeds on fuch manure, will be fure to 
fill up his whole time. On large inclofed farms ¢avo fuch men may 
frequently be kept well employed; efpecially where the practice 
includes the raifing of cabbage for feeding, and the cultivation of 
potatoes in orchards, on banks, and in otherwife unprofitable cor- 
ners. When the advantages of fuch objects are placed in compa- 
rifon with the wages of a man at about faventy pounds per annum, 
the argument in their favour muft be obvious; independently of the 
pleafure arifing to the farmer, from the fuperior neatnefs of his 
fields, and the credit he will not fail to acquire with his landlord and 
the publick. To gentlemen, who farm their owz eftates, thefe mi- 
miite attentions will not be confidered as lefs important: in addition 
to the profits direétly refulting from the fyftem, the more extenfive 
good of teaching by example, will haye its growing influence with 
them. 
Some 
