OCT.] SER 485- 



in an irregular manner, and rice balks half 1 



over. 



If no bailiff is kept, you must be more attentive in 

 hiring ploughmen; to e! ill be obe- 



dient without that round of murmuring and com- 

 plaints so often heard from these men : if the people 

 be not docile, you will find great difficulty in having 

 the land managed in the manner you like best. Shep- 

 herds, hog-herds, cow-herds, driving-boys, and all 

 other servants, are now hired ; and as characters are 

 scarcely ever given among farmers, it much depends 

 on your t]i- ! -ck judging of the accounts the fellows 

 give of themselves ; and every man is a physiogno- 

 mist. 



Some great farmers board their men-servants and 

 boys with their bailiff: it is one way of lessening 

 trouble, and with one bailiff in twenty may be a pro- 

 per arrangement ; but far better for the farmer to have 

 all his people under his own eye: he ought to consider 

 himself as answerable, in some degree, for their religious 

 and their moral conduct ; to keep them regularly at 

 their church, and, as much as possible, to prevent all 

 swearing and profane language, for he may depend on 

 finding servants, thus kept to a decent, orderly, and 

 sober conduct, proving much more useful assistants 

 than an ill-regulated, profligate set : it is to be hoped 

 that our farmer has higher and better motives, but in a 

 mere worldly view, he will soon be convinced of this 

 fact. If he keeps a bailiff' of the better sort, and 

 single, there are many advantages in having him eat 

 at the farmer's table. 



Is it more advantageous to keep many servants and 



i i 3 few 



