( '88 ) 



Now, according to the preceding ac~ 

 counts, I fhould here add the produce of 

 almoft a whole year's labour, or 20 /. at 

 leaft, which would double the above re- 

 mainder; but one circumftance muft here 

 be confidered. A farmer who has 300 /. 

 worth of cattle on his land may probably 

 m>rk hard upon his own farm, but not at 

 all upon that of another man. This has 

 nothing to do with calculation indeed ; but 

 it has with human nature; and we mull 

 not expert that every man will facrifice all 

 his paflions to the grand object of profit. 

 This farmer having nothing to do, may, 

 however, keep himfelf lightly employed 

 about his fences, in digging excellent 

 ditches throughout his farm, in draining 

 any wet fields he may have, and in other 

 little improvements, to keep him out of 

 idlenefs. But this ceflation of the farmer's 

 \torking for others, when not fully em- 

 ployed at home, makes a great variation in 

 the profit of the farms taken at large, on 

 comparing one with another. It is howe- 

 ver remarkable, that this farmer, almoft in 

 idknefs, makes double the profit of his 



brother, 



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