178 PaicES OF Land, Labovr, (Part H. 



halt" a day, in four feet rows. Ducks and geese will do 

 the same. Fowls will do great mischief. If these 

 things cannot be kept out of the field, the crop must be 

 (abandoned, or the poultry killed. It is true, indeed, 

 that it is only near the house that poultry plague you 

 much : but, it is equally true, that the best and rich- 

 est land is precisely that which is near the house, and 

 this, on every account, whether of produce or appli- 

 cation, is the very land where you ought to have theSe 

 crops. 



CHAP. IX. 



PRICES OF LAND, LABOUR, FOOD AND RAIMENT. 



310. Land is of various prices, of course. But, as 

 I am, in this Chapter, addressing myself to English 

 Farmers, I am not speaking of the price either of land 

 in the wildernesses, or of land in the immediate vicinage 

 of great cities. The wilderness price is two or three 

 dollars an acre : the city price four or five hundred. 

 The land at the same distance from New York that 

 Chelsea is from London, is of higher price than the 

 land at Chelsea. The surprising growth of these cities, 

 and the brilliant prospect before them, give value to 

 every thing that is situated in or near them. 



31 L It is my intention, however, to speak only of 

 farming land. This, too, is, of course, affected in its 

 value by the circumstance of distance from market; 

 but, the reader will make his own calculations as td 

 this matter. A farm, then, on this Island, any whtte 

 not nearer than thirty miles off, and not more distant 

 than sixty miles from. New York, with a good farm- 

 house, barn, stables, sheds, and styes ; the land fenced 

 into fields with posts and rails, the wood-land being in 

 the proportion of one to ten of the arable land, and there 

 being on the farm a pretty good orchard ; such a farm, 

 if the land be in a good state, and of an average (^ua- 



