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\vhich it is impossible the master can have an entire 

 check, have at least a tendency to give opportuni- 

 ties of dishonesty, which may have a bad effect ; 

 and market meetings, for the transaction of this 

 sort of business, are likewise too apt to hazaa! the 

 sobriety of a bailiff. 



As to other servants, the principal arc the plough- 

 men; for on them depends, in a good measure, the 

 success of all crops. In a large business, it will be 

 very difficult to have all good hands; but a man 

 should aim at it as much as possible; fora bud 

 ploughman makes very indifferent work, but skims 

 the land in an irregular manner, and rice-balks half 

 he goes over. 



If no bailiff is kept, you must be more attentive 

 in hiring ploughmen : to choose such as will be 

 obedient without that round of murmuring and 

 complaints so often heard from these men : if they 

 be not docile, you will find great difficulty in 

 having the land managed in the manner you like 

 best. Shepherds, hog-herds, cow-herds, driving- 

 boys, and all other servants, are now hired ; and as 

 characters are scarcely ever given among farmers, 

 it mucl> depends on your quick judging of the ac- 

 counts the ft-llows give of themselves ; and every 

 man is a physiognomist. 



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, maybe 

 a proper arrangement; but far better for the farmer 

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



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