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farmers, four horfes are kept to 56 acre* 

 of arable land; which is precifely the reafon 

 why fuch farmers are as poor and miferable 

 as the leaft of occupiers* 



Liveftock. 



The two horfes neceflary for this farm 

 muft do more work than thofe affigned to 

 the preceding ones ; it is but juft, there- 

 fore, to allow a fomewhat greater price. 



Cows a little farmer mould always con- 

 trive to keep, although his farm is all 

 arable: thefe muft fubfift on clover and 

 ftraw* 



Seed and tillage. 



tinder this head I ftate the coiirfd of 

 crops, which it will be moft advantageous 

 for fuch a farm to be thrown into; that is f 

 one fourth fallow, a fourth wheat, a fourth 

 fpring corn, and the remaining fourth 

 clover ; by which means half his farm is 

 what may be called fallow every year ; and, 

 confequently, the whole kept in good order, 

 no two crops of corn ever coming together. 

 Befides which advantage, he will always 

 L 2 have 



