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Proper fize of a South-Wiltfhire farm.—As the 
only difference between good hufbandry and bad, 
is, that the former, by enabling a tenant to raife a 
greater comparative produce at a /e/s comparative 
expence, enables him to acquire more profit to him- 
felf, and to give a greater rent to his landlord, than 
he could do by purfuing the latter, it may not be 
improper here to enquire on what fixed farm, as 
well as by what mode of bufbandry, a farmer in this 
diftri€t will be beft able to do this; and this en- 
quiry is particularly neceflary at this time, when fo 
great a part of South-Wiltfhire is emerging into a 
new fyftem, by the extinction of lifehold tenures; 
and the abolition of common-field hufbandry. 
At a time when this diftrict was, in general, in a 
ftate of lifehold tenure, the fize of farms was not 
always an object of the choice of the landlord, but 
of neceffity; and while the lands remained ina 
ftate of commonage, the occupiers were in an equal 
ftate of advantage (or rather of difadvantage.) But 
in thofe manors where it is intended that the life- 
hold tenements fhall fall into hand, and that farms 
fhall be made out of them, it becomes an object 
of confideration, “ what the moft proper fize of a 
South-Wiltfhire farm is;” fo as to afcertain the 
neceflity of taking down unneceflary buildings, and 
to determine the number and fituation of thofe 
necefflary to be built in their room. 
Much 
