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fufficient to fupply the defeds of the 

 mailer's. A man who finds the judgment 

 of a bailey of ufe to him, moft certainly 

 knows' too little of the practice of hufbandry, 

 to difcover when he is well or when ill 

 ferved : ^onfequently the whole of his bu- 

 fmefs may fuffer, through the ignorance of 

 the bailey, and the gentleman know little 

 of the matter. 



I pretend not to reduce fuch complicated 

 contingent matters to calculation; but my 

 readers, I apprehend, will allow me that, 

 in all thefe points, the common farmer has 

 a vaft fuperiority to the gentleman one. 

 Let us now be equally fair and impartial in 

 ftating the other fide of the queflion, and 

 confider the circumftances in which the 

 gentleman has the advantage of the far- 

 mer. 



Throughout thefe meets, I attempt to 

 ftate the account of every farm, with an 

 eye not only to the land itfelf, but alfo to 

 fuch circumftances of the man who occu- 

 pies it; fuch as his fubftance, houfe-keep- 

 ing, furniture, &c. In the fame manner, 

 variations muft be made between the prac- 

 tice of gentlemen and that of common far- 

 mers. 



