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But where it is ufual to have barn-room 

 fufficient for the crops, a man fhould at- 

 tentively examine whethqr there is fuch 

 room, and alfo take notice of what the 

 barn-floors are laid : Many are even at this 

 day made of clay ; fuch fhould be rejected, 

 as a fine bright fample of corn cannot be 

 had from off them. They ought to be of 

 oak plank 2 or 3 inches thick. Another 

 point he fhould not overlook, is the fize 

 of the thrafhing-floors ; for if they are 

 fmall, and he is at any time in a hurry to 

 get his corn out, fo a's to fet feveral men in 

 at a time, he will indubitably find them 

 raife their price upon him for want of good 

 room, and with great reafon. 



II. The article of {tables, or ox-houfes, 

 is a very important one. If a farm has 

 been cultivated by a fet of flovens, who 

 have not given it above half the requifite 

 tillage, nor ever thought of keeping a 

 team for the carriage of manures, probably 

 he will not find half the room requifite for 

 the draught cattle he purpofes to keep : It 

 is never to be taken, of courfe, that a farm 

 has ftabling, &c. enough, becaufe the old 

 tenant has not complained. He ihould 



therefore 



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