into avarice, and deny his farm the necef- 

 fary expences of tillage and manure ; 

 but are we therefore to forbear calculating 

 upon the general fuperiority of his fruga- 

 lity? It is univerfally allowed, that we 

 ought not to reject a practice in morals, 

 politicks or trade, merely becaufe it is 

 capable of being pernicious. In the fame 

 manner, we are not to reject, from the 

 gentleman's account, the advantages I have 

 mentioned, becaufe he may apply them to 

 his deftruction : that is not the fault of 

 thofe fuppofed advantages, but in a want 

 of judgment in the individual who makes 

 the application. 



That there are numerous inftances of 

 the kind in queftion, wherein the gentle- 

 man may be fuppofed vaftly fuperior to the 

 farmer, a very little attention will difcover. 

 A few inftances. may be named in a mo- 

 ment. 



Suppofe the gentleman to live in a 

 country wherein turnips are commonly 

 cultivated, but none hoed: He finds, in 

 turning over his books, that hoeing is a 

 common practice in many counties, and 

 prodigiouQy advantageous j takes the 



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