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always the executers of the public works ; fo that 

 the money they pay returns back to themfelves. 



Hearth-money and window taxes are always con- 

 fidered a grievance among the poorer clafs, and are 

 frequently paid with murmur and difcontent, as their 

 ideas are, that no future advantage can derive to them 

 for money fo laid out; they never confider, that fuch 

 taxes are for the fupport of a government, which pro- 

 tecls them and their property. 



There are other taxes fettled by acls of veftry, for 

 the repairs of houfes of worfhip, paying fextons, &c.; 

 but thefe affecl: the individual, only in a very fmall 

 degree. 



SECT. 6. Proportion of working Horfes or Bullocks, 

 to theftze of Farms. 



WITH refpecl: to the proportion of cattle to the fize 

 of farms, there is no fixed ftandard or rule. A farm 

 of twenty acres may require as many cattle to cul- 

 tivate it, as another of fifty acres, according to the 

 quantity of arable land the farm may contain. Few 

 bullocks are made ufe of. Except in large farms, two 

 or three horfes are about the number ufually employ- 

 ed. Very little ploughing is performed till after Chrift- 

 mas, of courfe the fewer cattle are necefTary. Draw- 

 ing turf and manure occupies more time in the year, 

 than ploughing. Occupiers of fmall farms generally 



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