Suppofe the difference in ploughing be- 

 tween the farmer's plough and the gentle- 

 man's to be a quarter of an acre in a day ; 

 this I am confident is not below the mark, 

 if we take into the account extraordinary 

 times, when the farmer does greatly more 

 than the gentleman, and alfo the difference 

 of the ploughing ; for the gentleman, moft 

 certainly, will not have his land ploughed 

 fo well as the farmer, if he has near the 

 fame quantity done. Many gentlemen are 

 much more folicitous for deep ploughing 

 than farmers, but then they afluredly fufFer 

 proportionably in quantity. Upon the 

 whole, there can be no doubt but that a 

 farmer who ploughs with his men will 

 have one fourth more done, either in quan- 

 tity or quality, than the gentleman. Now 

 this, upon one article, is a difference 25 per 

 cent. 



In carting dung, clay, marie, compofts> 

 &c. there can be no doubt but the farmer? 

 driving his own team, and paying his la- 

 bourers by the fcore, that he may not wait 

 for them, will carry 6 loads in 20 more than 

 the gentleman; and if leaving work in 

 flight rains, or for other unneceflary occa- 



