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not one that does not call on the farmer for an ample 

 capital. 



Of all farms, a warren is hired with the smallest 

 capital; hut there are marshes in Lincolnshire stocked 

 at the rate of above 30l. per acre. 



The annual expence of many hop-grounds amounts 

 to 30l. and the capital to above 6ol. 



If a farmer does not make ten per cent on his ca- 

 pital, he must either have a bad farm or bad ma- 

 nagement, or the times must be unfavourable. He 

 ought to make from twelve to fifteen per cent. Some 

 farmers make more, when corn is at a fair price. 

 SETTING THE FLOCK. 



In stocking the farm, our young farmer will have 

 to determine on the breed and system of sheep. I 

 shall here give one caution, and that is, to be very 

 careful that he do not enter into such expences in 

 buying fashionable breeds, as may cripple his exer- 

 tions in more necessary objects. 

 SERVANTS. 



This is the time that farming servants are chiefly 

 hired, and the attentive cultivator should consider 

 well before he determines on the number or the qua- 

 lity of his servants. A considerable business requires 

 the employment of a bailiff; and as such a servant 

 may have material effects on the conduct of a busi- 

 nass, it is always right in a farmer to consider the 

 nature of his own case well. If his farm is extremely 

 large, if his culture is complex, or if he is absent a 

 part of the year ; in these circumstances, the employ- 

 ment of a bailiff may be absolutely necessary ; but 

 there are so many sorts of bailiffs, that a man may 



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