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no more than prudent, in general, to expefc 

 to pay the real value... 



CHAP. XI. 



Of the price of labour. 



I SUP POSE, throughout thefe fheets, that 

 my farmer defigns to cultivate his land 

 in a 'clean, neat, and fpirited manner, to 

 make the moft of his ground : If fuch is 

 his intention, he will find labour his 

 greateft expence, and much exceeding the 

 rent. It is therefore evidently of great 

 confequence, whether the price of this ne- 

 cefTary is dear or cheap ; that is, higher 

 or lower than what is common, or, per- 

 haps, than what he has been ufed to. The 

 variations of the prices of labour, in 

 different parts of the kingdom, are fo great, 

 that a man may find his expences in one 

 farm run 20 per cent, higher than in ano- 

 ther, though the acres be the fame, and 

 every other circamftance of foil and marr 

 nagement. It is therefore of very great 

 importance to him, to know well the price s 



of 



