farm as he can grafp; but the peculiar 

 mifchief here is, he reckons his acres of 

 corn upon the ground, and the general 

 produce of his farm the laft year, as fo 

 much money (by calculation) towards flock- 

 ing the new one, which he moves into 

 directly: Now, upon entering into any 

 trade or bufmefs whatever, the great point 

 is to know to a milling the amount of a 

 man's fortune, to reckon at fo critical a 

 moment nothing upon contingencies, but 

 have the fatisfaction, as well as necefTary 

 accuracy, in knowing exactly the amount 

 of his dependences. 



If he moves directly out of one farm into 

 another, this cannot be the cafe; for it 

 muft be hired fome time before he leaves 

 his old one ; or, in other words, while his 

 laft year's crop is on the ground. Now I 

 would earneftly advife all in fuch actuation, 

 not even to look at a new farm, till the 

 whole product of their old one is converted 

 into money. He then knows exactly what 

 he has to depend upon, and can form a 

 much more accurate judgment of the quan- 

 tity of land proper for him to hire, than 

 6 while 



