i 7 4 TRAVELS 



The annual expence is as follows : 



1. s. & 



Servants wages 27 li a 



Maintenance 32 10 o 

 Maintenance of the horfes, and 



decline in their value 76 10 o 



Support of the implements 12 2 o 



Seed 24 10 o 



Harveft 8 15 d 



Total 181 18 o 



Every article in the entering a farm is tod 

 often done for the leaft fum poffible. If a 

 farmer's fon marries, and has a fortune of 

 43!. 155. he receives, we will fay, as much 

 with his wife. This gift is rarely in money ; 

 it is, generally fpeaking, in the effects of 

 labour, of which there may be abundance 

 in the houfes of their fathers. He is placed 

 in a farm of two ploughs $ they are confined 

 to the houfehold goods that are indifpen- 

 fible, and may let them have, for the firft 

 eighteen years, two horfes. The new-mar- 

 ried man has rio fervants, his wife is thet 

 only one. In the times of work, the two 

 fathers lend him their ploughs, and it is 



fome 



