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then they would prove highly beneficial to 

 the poor people, and to themfelves alfo. 



CHAP. XVII. 



Of. the vwft advantageous method of dif- 

 po/ixj of any fum from 1507. to 2oo/. in 

 fanning. 



J.T . is neceflary .to examine all , forts of 



- iiriall farms accurately, for a reafon 



':h doer, not .hold with larger ones. 



The little farmer muft be fuppofed to have 



no, .credit ; confequently, he muft be the 



more cautious not to hire an acre more than 



manage to advantage, as fuch an 



imprudence cannot be afterwards remedied 



pplying for a loan to any one.' But a 



larger farmer apy eafily be fuppofed to have 



'it; fo that, if he does rather over- 



ihuot,the mark, it may not be of fo bad 



coniequences. For this reafon, I dwell 



among little farms the longer, that the 



proportions between their money, and the 



land that is offered to them, may be known 



tvith the greater truth. 



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