Lueys, F 
vant in eachjdepartment, can manage properly; 
and for this, one head carter, with fuch a number 
of boys as may occafionally be wanted, and one 
head fhepherd, with affiftance at feafons of urgency, 
will generally be fufficient. 
Perhaps the loweft fize of a Wiltfhire-down farnt, 
that can be managed to advantage, is a good /ix 
horfe bufinefs, and the higheft a wine horfe bufinefs, 
or ¢ez atthe utmoft. Beyond this extent, ‘zo men 
are required in each of thefe fubordinate capacities ; 
a jealoufy is excited between them; the mafter’s 
eye is infufficient to manage them, and a bailiff is 
neceflary. 
This bufinefs becomes then, to all intents and 
purpofes, ‘wo farms; and would certainly be better 
managed, if in the occupation of two farmers. 
It is not meant here to fay, that all the farms in 
this diftrict, of a fmaller defcription than a fix-horfe 
bufinefs, fhould be confolidated. That would be 
cruelty, as well as impolicy. 
Where there are buildings proper for the occu- 
pation of farms in that f{tate, and where tenants are 
fettled on them, and, from peculiar circumftances, 
can live on them, and pay a rent equal to their 
value, they ought to be allowed to remain. It is 
only meant to apply to cafes, where new farms are 
to be made at the owner’s option, and #s rather in- 
tended to point out the proper extreme of largene/s, than 
the extreme of fmaline/s; but, at the fame time, with 
every 
