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any other buflnefs ? In fmall farms it is more perceiv- 

 able than in large ones; fmall farms are moflly occu- 

 pied by tradefmen, who depend upon their profit in 

 that line to pay their rents, more than on their land, 

 and therefore are feldom poflefTed of money fufficient 

 to meet the neceflary demands, and as feldom of the 

 proper flock and implements required. From a de- 

 ficiency in capital arifes almoft every other deficiency, 

 deficiency in ditching, in draining, in manuring, in crop- 

 ping, in exertion, and even in induftry; for every fa- 

 culty is dulled in every purfuit by the difficulties arif- 

 ing from that eflential want, the want of capital. Want 

 of induftry is not general in this country, but what is 

 induftry, without the means of employing it to advan- 

 tage ? Is it not a perpetual wafte of one of the mofl ufe- 

 ful qualities to fociety ? But how to extricate it from this 

 fituation, and to give it its proper direction, that is the 

 difficulty. Another obftacle to improvement, and a 

 very feriqus one, arifes from the great number of 

 thatched houfes, which, requiring continual repairs, 

 confume the ftraw neceflary for the fupport of cattle, 

 and deprives the land of the manure, that otherwife 

 might be made. In this county it is particularly inex- 

 eufable, as flate quarries have been opened in many 

 parts, and in all have been found to anfwer. The nu- 

 merous ditches, alfo, by which the fmall farms are 

 divided, occafion great lofs of ground. 



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