CHAP. III. 



Of the probability of increafmg the quantity 

 of Land. 



THE great object of farmers, whether 

 gentlemen or common hufbandmen, 

 (if they make it their bufmefs and profef- 

 fion) is to advance their fortunes. Mer- 

 chants and manufacturers, when they 

 increafe in riches, enlarge their trade ; and 

 farmers, in the fame manner, are defirous 

 of a more confiderable bufmefs, as foon as 

 they poffefs a fum of money beyond the 

 amount of what is requifite for their pre^- 

 fent farms. 



The moft common fault a man mould 

 guard againft, in this cafe, is the wrong 

 application of his profit. Unlefs his farm 

 is perfectly improved and cultivated, he 

 may ever depend on it almoft as a maxim, 

 that it is more profitable completely to 

 cultivate one farm, before he attempts ano- 

 ther. 



Fields, of which he has experience, has 

 obferved, and felt their defects, in which 



he 



