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This, although an arable one, and confe- 

 quently liable to many objections, is an 

 excellent culture for a gentleman, particu- 

 1 rly in the crop of cabbages (the fourth of 

 the farm) being in many cafes convertible 

 into the fame produce as the clover, ftraw, 

 hay, &c. &c. that is, into the fame cattle 

 which, for numerous reafons, is a point of 

 much importance to a gentleman. If cab- 

 bages are not cultivated upon this farm, 

 beans muft be fubftituted; which, befides 

 the inferiority vifible in the above table, has 

 all the difadvantages attending corn crops, 

 in themfelves fo prejudicial to gentlemen. 

 There is, for this reafon, a much greater 

 difference between a farm in which cab- 

 bages are one crop, and another in which 

 beans are one, than apparent in thefe ac- 

 counts. Nor is it poffible in fuch eftimates 

 to reduce every thing to calculation : I 

 rather ftrained a point in calculating the 

 difference between a gentleman and farmer 

 in labour at 27 per cent. I might have done 

 the fame in that of being cheated in the 

 minutiiZ of the bufmefs of paying arti- 

 zans too much of buying and felling to 

 difadvantage of having bad crops through 

 c want 



