evident probability of acquiring an addition, 

 and no danger of being converted into an 

 addition one's felf. 



Sometimes farms are to be had of no 

 determinate quantity of land ; but as much 

 or as little as a man chufes to hire. Such 

 are very favourable opportunities, and par- 

 ticularly valuable. It then depends on the 

 farmer alone to take juft the breadth of 

 land which may be advantageoufly flocked, 

 and conducted with the fum of money he 

 is poflefTed of; by which means his for- 

 tune is thrown into the moft advantageous 

 road that is poffible : but then he ought to 

 be efpecially upon his guard, not to take 

 more than he can thoroughly command. A 

 farmer fhould ever be ftronger than his farm. 

 I mail, in thefe fheets, draw up fome cal- 

 culations of the proportion between a given 

 fum of money and quantity of land. 



All thefe circumftances, whether they exift 

 in a greater or lefs degree, ought to be 

 reduced to fome eftimate by the farmer, 

 when he views the farm. If every point 

 is not confidered, a juft idea cannot be 

 gained of any. 



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