( '59 ) 



yet we find that fum is here applied to a 

 very profitable ufe in flocking fo finall a 

 farm ; and the benefit depending on very 

 few contingencies, and liable to no misfor- 

 tunes of bad crops, &c. &c. &;c. 



Secondly, we find fatting to be more 

 profitable than dairying, which is a cir-? 

 cumftance of confequence, and muft be fur- 

 ther examined in future calculations. 



Thirdly, the profit here charged I can- 

 not fuppofe will be by any one objected to; 

 40 s. not being a confiderable difference 

 between a lean heifer of 3 /. value, and a 

 fat one: I think it can no where be 

 reckoned at lefs when fatted upon land of 

 25 s. an acre. And the affigning 40 of 

 them and a cow to 36 fuch acres, is certainly 

 rather under than over the truth ; as I 

 know, in a multiplicity of inftances, that 

 fuch land will very well fat two fuch heifers 

 per acre ; but one and an half would by 

 moft have been allowed. But I like to cal- 

 culate each article in all thefe eftimates low, 

 to obviate objections. 



