firft finds a farrier's bill as long as his Lon- 

 don taylor's. The other has been his 

 own phyfician. The firft is furprifed at 

 his neighbour's luck ; but, without being 

 accufed of enchantment, he might conclude 

 his anfwer, as the Roman farmer did, meas 

 vigilias et fudores. But the fweat of the 

 fervant was probably employed more in 

 abufing than curing his mailer's horfes. 



It would be endlefs to multiply inftances ; 

 in one word, the contrail holds through all 

 the work of a farm. If we could reduce it 

 exactly to calculation, what a vail difference 

 $er cent, in profit would appear ! 



But although we cannot reduce the whole 

 of thefe matters to calculation, let us attempt 

 a few of them, upon probable fuppofitions : 

 if the reader rejects the data upon which I 

 build my eilimates, it is but his paffing 

 over a page or two, and he will be never 

 the worfe for it. 



Let us fuppofe a farm to employ 4 horfes, 

 which are kept conftantly at work. This 

 is no improbability, for I had fix horfes, 

 which in three years never were abfolutely 

 idle three days, except Sundays. 



Suppofe 



