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out by a Mr. Me. Culley, of collecting the manufac- 

 turing farmers into towns or villages, and letting their 

 lands to real farmers ; but when the length of time re- 

 quired to bring about this change is confidered, the 

 number of perfons that muft co-operate in bringing it 

 about, and the hardfhips that muft be the confequence 

 to many, I fee little hope of effecting a reform upon 

 this principle. But, in reality, fmall farms are no other- 

 wife improper than as they are improperly managed, 

 from not being the fole dependence of the occupier; 

 if then a proper management could be obtained, the 

 evil would ceafe, and to this object every attention 

 fhould be paid by the proprietors of the county, and 

 the Agricultural Society, in holding out every induce- 

 ment towards a more improved culture, particularly in 

 holdings below a certain number of acres ; and, when 

 this fails, for the proprietors to keep it fteadily in 

 view, that the farms of thofe, who are negligent and 

 flothful, fhould, at the expiration of the leafes, be 

 added to thofe of their more fldlful and attentive 

 neighbours. 



To particularize each gentleman, from whom I have 

 received information, would be to mention every one 

 I have fpoken to on the fubject of this Report, in the 

 courfe of which I fcave taken the liberty tp mention 

 many of their names, as authorities for what is here 

 advanced. 



