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confidered, one cannot reckon his general 

 profit fo great as that of the farmer by at 

 leaft one third, or 33 per cent, and this for 

 calculation. In facl, I am perfaaded it is, 

 in one cafe, a reality, but in the other an 

 imagination, or worfe, a lofs. 



Suppofmg it was a point capable of 

 proof, I would bet any wager within the 

 compafs of my fortune, that no gentleman 

 in England, by common management, 

 upon a farm fairly ftated as to rent, and 

 all accounts clear and fatisfactory, made 

 within 40 per cent, of the profit of a good 

 neighbouring farmer. If I had faid 50 

 or 60 per cent. I do not think I mould have 

 exceeded the mark, grazing farms ex- 

 cepted. 



Some farmers (in middling farms) do 

 little more work themfelyes than gentle- 

 men. Such partake of both the claffes I 

 have ftated ; they have, however, the ad- 

 vantage of the latter in attending more to 

 their bufmefs ; and the gentlemen of them 

 in that enlarged knowledge I before men- 

 tioned. 



In the fucceeding chapters, as in the 

 preceding, I fuppofe nothing but excellent 



hufbandry ; 



