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corn, efpecially where lime, fea fand, and fimilar 
manures, are to be fetched from a diftance on horfes’ 
backs, as in Devon and Cornwall; and where the 
ploughing is entirely, or chiefly, done by the oxen 
bred on the farm ; and even in fome parts of South- 
Wiltfhire, where {mall farms are fituate on fandy 
foils, they may be applied, on a garden fyftem, to 
raifing efculent vegetables very advantageoufly. 
In thefe cafes, where circumftances enable fall 
farmers to do almoft the whole of the neceffary 
work of their farms with ‘heir own families, they can 
bring their produce to market on equal terms with 
the large ones. 
But on Wiltfhire-down farms, where horfes are 
neceflary to plough the land, and fheep to manure 
it, the little farmer ftands on a very difadvantage- 
ous comparifon with the great one, being obliged 
to be at much greater proportional expence in 
horfes and fervants. 
Every Wiltfhire-down farm, if even fo fmall as 
4ol. per annum, provided it is to be manured by 
the fheep-fold, requires a fhepherd, a carter, and a 
plough-boy, and feldom lefs than three horfes, but 
frequently four; and yet a farm of double the fize 
may be managed frequently with one, or at the 
utmoft, with two additional horfes, and with one, 
or at any rate with two additional boys. For, 
whether thefe fervants and horfes have or have not 
full employ. their expence will be nearly the fame; 
and 
