We may, therefore, pronounce the laft of 

 the three, or the grazing one, to be much 

 the beft ; as that takes up fcarce any of the 

 farmer's time, but leaves him for other 

 profitable avocations; whereas the two 

 arable ones demand not only all his time, 

 but alfo continual hard labour. 



CHAP. XX. 



Of the difference between gentlemen and 

 common farmers, in hiring and flocking 

 farms. 



WE are now come to fuch a fum of 

 money as requires an equal atten- 

 tion to the gentleman and the farmer. In 

 a former chapter, I hinted that a divifion 

 of the fubjecT:, for this purpofe, would 

 create fuch a multiplicity of fubdivifions, 

 as to throw the whole in that confufion 

 which often arifes from an excefs of me- 

 thod. The plained way of treating this 

 double fubjecT: will be to ftate, in each 

 chapter, firft, the calculations for the 

 common farmer, and then fuch variations 

 as arife between him and the gentleman ; 



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