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few labourers, or many labourers and few servants ? 

 Twenty years ago I believe the latter was more profit- 

 able, but at present the reverse. The price of day 

 labour, and the difficulty of getting it, are increased 

 more than the wages of servants and the expences 

 of house-keeping: and there is an ad \antage, not a 

 trifling one, in the farm-house being made a market 

 for many inferior articles of the farm -produce. The 

 certainty of commanding hands is a great object. 

 However, much will depend on the local circum- 

 stances and population of the district ; and much on 

 the due regulation of the fanner's family. 



FAMILY ARRANGEMENT. 

 Many accidental circumstances, gradually bring in- 

 to a certain train the common habits of domestic 

 life ; but it would often be more advantageous to lay 

 down a plan to be pursued within doors as well as 

 without : such ideas may not always fee practicable, 

 but the mere aim will not be without its use. Our 

 young farmer, on entering his farm, must necessarily 

 arrange his plan of life and house-keeping, a subject 

 which should not be wholly omitted, yet admits but 

 a few cursory hints that may possibly give a turn to 

 his reflections, and being properly worked on in his 

 mind, may possibly produce a beneficial effect on his 

 conduct. It is not every man that has the power 

 of thinking to any marked utility ; but he whose 

 mind is inquisitive, may think to advantage on every 

 subject. A prudent economy, free from all sordid 

 avarice, will by every one be admitted as right ; but it 

 demands some reflection on entering life, or a farm, so 

 to arrange every day circumstances, that they shall flow 



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