Under thefe heads I fhall confider, 

 all thofe circumftances which are in com- 

 mon to both farmers aad gentlemen ; and, 

 fecoiidly, fuch as are peculiar to the latter. 

 The mention of thefe grand divifions is fuf- 

 ficient here to give the reader a general idea 

 of the defign; the fubdivifion will arife 

 naturally out of the fubjecl:. 



CHAP. I. 

 Of the Soil. 



T N the common courfe of bufmefs, it is 

 * known fome time before a farm is va- 

 cant ; and thofe who think of hiring it have 

 more opportunities than one, of both view- 

 ing and enquiring after it. The great point 

 is the foil. Let us, firft, fuppofe it of a 

 (tiff nature, clay or ftiff loam ... A judg- 

 ment of this muft be formed according to 

 feafons. 



Enquiries are commonly, and judicioufly, 

 made into the crops the land has ufually 

 yielded ; but let me remark, that this point, 

 although not abfolutely to be flighted, yet is 

 never to determine a man's deciiion. Crops 



are 



