SECTION IV. 



Why Farmers are not enriched in proportion 

 to the increafed Trice of Trovifions. 



IN fearching for the caufes why farmers 

 are not enriched, in proportion to the in- 

 creafed price of provifions, we fhall be at 

 little lofs to fix on fome of thofe methods 

 which modern farmers have looked upon to 

 be improvements. 



It is too much the cuftom, particularly in 

 agriculture, for people to look only to what 

 will produce immediate profit and advantage; 

 without attending to the certain and obvious 

 confequences in future crops. Hence, in 

 fome places, too much is laid out in corn^ 

 crops, and too little in grafs, becaufe from 

 thence the farmer thinks he derives immedi- 

 ate advantage. In other places, the ground 

 is almoft all laid out in grafs, becaufe there 

 they imagine that grafs farms turn to the 

 K greateft 



