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\vell before he determines on the number or the 

 quality of his servants. A considerable business re- 

 quires the cmpJovmerit of a bailiff; and as such a 

 servant may have material effects on the conduct of 

 a business, it is ahvays right in a farmer to consider 

 the nature of his own case well. If his farm is ex- 

 tremely large, if his culture is complex, or if he is 

 absent a part of the year ; in these circumstances, 

 the employment of a bailiff may be absolutely ne- 

 cessary; but there are so many sorts of bailiffs, 

 that a man may qualify the measure almost into that 

 of hiring a common servant. In a large farm, his 

 business is to be perpetually on the watch on all 

 the people, of whatever sort, employed ; conse- 

 quently he must not work, which confines him to 

 one place. Tins part of his employment renders it 

 necessary that he should be of a rank something- 

 above the best sort of servants and workmen ; for 

 if one from that class has the command given him, 

 he will- not be well obeyed. A bailiff should ever 

 preserve a due authority over all the people em- 

 ployed ; and, for this purpose, his master would 

 find it very useful to allow him to hire his own 

 servants and labourers, or at least to give him 

 liberty to turn any of them away. 



Respecting market transactions, all buying, sell- 

 ing, bargaining, and receiving money, it is highly 

 advisable for the master to do all business of that 

 sort: it is dangerous to trust these servants too 

 much; not for fear of their running away with 

 money; but numerous money transactions, of 



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