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large fcale, that 50 may be equally To on a 

 fmaller. 



It is evident that the joint application of 

 cabbages and lucerne to the feeding of cat- 

 tle, is a moft profitable farm to a gentle- 

 man, and from the firnplicity of the bufi- 

 nefs, being drawn as it were to one point 

 of buying and felling, (an object of great 

 importance to a gentleman) is open to a 

 few objections, and chances of being cheated 

 and deceived, as any tillage farm can be; 

 for the deduction of 27 per cent, on the 

 labour in thefe improved farms, anfwering 

 at leaft a principal part of the objections 

 relative to that quarter ; and the fimplicity 

 of the bufmefs of them, in comparifon with 

 a corn one, removing many others, leaves 

 thefe farms very beneficial ones : Here is 

 no feed to buy, and to trufl through fervants 

 hands no critical feafons to be caught 

 in fowing, reaping, harvefting, &c. where 

 a fmall lofs in labour is attended with great 

 confequences : and almoft all the labour 

 that is required, is in a pretty regular path, 

 and open to few impofitions. In the buy- 

 ing and felling cattle, 'the gentleman cer- 

 tainly is inferior to the common farmer; but 

 C c 3 then 



