too dear, in an unimproved ftate, and for 

 which they have not a fufficient capital to 

 manure and improve. 



By thefe means they are ever pinched for 

 money, and conftantly hurried with the 

 ploughing, not having fufficient ftrength of 

 cattle to labour the farm in the proper feafon. 

 This, for the mod part, makes the time of 

 fowing very late, and the proper feafon is 

 often miffed : Of courfe, the time of reaping 

 becomes late alfo. Hence they often lofe a 

 great part of the crop ; as, by being fo late, 

 it is frequently fliaken, and broken with the 

 winds, and hurt by early frofts. 



It is in general the cafe with moft farmers 

 in Scotland, and fome parts of England, that 

 they fow too late in the feafon. It would be 

 much for their intereft to fow early, whene- 

 ver the feafon will permit, and likewife to 

 fow all early corns wherever the foil is rich. 



It would be much for the intereft of many 

 farmers, that their farms were only the one 

 half number of acres; or at leaft, that they 

 would only fow the one half of their farm : 

 For they would find it more for their profit 

 to have one acre properly ploughed, and fown 



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