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60 grafs and 20 arable and 100 acres 

 of clay, all arable; but the very men- 

 tion of the laft, in which the gentleman is 

 neceffarily under fo many difadvantages not 

 to be eftimated, is fufficient to tell us that 

 mould be rejected: the 60 grafs and 20 

 arable I mould prefer, having fo much lefs 

 labour, and fewer chances againft it. 



N 7. and 2. that is, 80 acres all light 

 arable, and 60 laid down to grafs, are likewife 

 upon a par : there can therefore be no com- 

 parifon between them ; the latter muft in 

 every refpecT: be preferable. 



The 32 acres cultivated in carrots and 

 lucerne, are the leaft beneficial of any, 

 (under the circumftances recited in that 

 eftimate) ; but this proceeds from fo large a 

 fum of money being expended on fo fmall a 

 tract of land ; thofe vegetables, in a due 

 proportion to the flock, will hereafter be 

 found as beneficial as moft, and to yield a 

 profit much fuperior to that of the common 

 farmer. I did not ftrike out the calculation, 

 that gentlemen might fee that they are not 

 to reafon too much by analogy in tillage 

 farms, and to conclude that, becaufe 50 

 acres are very profitably employed upon a 

 2 large 



