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manner agreeable to his own inclinations, la 

 a strange country, for several reasons : — as 

 he cannot do the business himself, he has 

 all his people to learn ; and, if he have 

 not been accustomed to the practical part 

 of farming, he w^ill not be able to instruct 

 others : should he have the necessary 

 quaUlications, the people he employs are, 

 generally speaking, so prejudiced, that what- 

 ever management he may want to carry on 

 different from the custom of their country, 

 they will, under a persuasion that U: cannot 

 succeed, act continually contrary to his 

 directions. In America, the people are 

 right ; but in Ireland a great deal of the 

 farming business would be conducted with 

 greater advantage by English management, 

 the soil being fertile, and the climate gene- 

 rally more favourable : America is exactly 

 the reverse — the soil being poor, and the 

 climate unfavourable for all farming busi- 

 ness, and breeding of cattle and sheep ; it is, 

 therefore, evidently a planting country. 

 Although large quantities of wheat are 



