Now, if 40 /. or 50 f. a year be divided 

 into fo much per cent, on the capital cm- 

 ployed in hufbandry, the remedy, in any 

 but a very large farm, will be found worfe 

 than the difeafe. But is it a remedy? Will 

 the employing a bailey bring all the preced- 

 ing articles of difad vantage to a par with 

 the farmer? Far from it; there is a great 

 difference between a man acting for himfelf, 

 and for another: befides, baileys do not 

 drive the team ; and very few of them even 

 plough, fo that there will be nearly the 

 fame reafons for the workmen and horfes 

 being flack in their work under the bailey, 

 as under the mafter ; fuppofmg, I mean, 

 lie is perfectly honeft, and confiders his 

 matter's intereft as his own. 



But how are we to reduce the honefty of 

 the bailey to calculation ? This furpafles all 

 our art; but a few conjectures may not be 

 unprofitable. I have fcarce ever been in 

 any county without finding the knavery of 

 baileys, hinds, agents, &c. &c. &c. a com- 

 mon fubject of difcourfe among farmers; 

 which, though no proof, is yet a ftrong 

 preemption. Nor is it to be wondered at, 

 for they are ufually people of very low 



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