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feme avaricious landlords, and being like- 

 wife allowed too fhort tacks, become at laft 

 unable to pay their rents. 



The general cry at prefent is, that farming 

 is a lofing game; fo that few people of pro- 

 perty now chufe to embark in it, and fewer 

 chufe to rifk their money by lending it to a 

 farmer. 



And perhaps, in fome cafes, by giving in- 

 to the general vice of the country, too expen- 

 five a mode of living, it is impoflible but ma- 

 ny failures muft happen; fo that things pro- 

 ceeding in this manner for fome time, the 

 produce of the country in general muft be 

 affedled in the moft grievous and alarming 

 manner. 



Some farmers often hurt themfelves, part- 

 ly from ignorance and felf-conceit, by not 

 having a proper rotation of crops of corn and 

 grafs : Sometimes trying experiments that 

 turn out to their difadvantage ; many hurt- 

 ing themfelves during the laft three or four 

 years of the leafe, by overcropping, and thus 

 ruin the foil ; fo that it will perhaps take ten 

 years to bring it into the fame condition it 

 was before. This is injuring the landlord, 

 and the nation in general ; and doing no good 



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