72 Arrangement of Agricultural Labour. 



cessity of reducing the number of ploughs. When driving 

 dung from the farm-yard, three carts may be used, one al- 

 ways filling in the yard, another going to the field, and a 

 third returning ; the leading horse of the empty cart ought 

 then to be unyoked, and put to the full one. In the same 

 manner, while one pair of horses are preparing the land for 

 sowing turnips, the other three horses may be employed in 

 carrying the dung to the land, either with two or three carts, 

 as the situation of the ground may happen to require. By 

 extending the same management to other farm operations, a 

 considerable saving of labour may be effected. 



6. A farmer ought never to engage in a work, whether of 

 ordinary practice, or of intended improvement, without pre- 

 viously giving it the best consideration of which he is ca- 

 pable, and being satisfied, that it is advisable for him to at- 

 tempt it ; but when begun, he ought to proceed in it with 

 much attention and perseverance, until he has given it a fair 

 trial. 



7. It is a main object, in carrying on improvements, not 

 to attempt too much at once ; and never to begin a work, 

 without a probability of being able to finish it in due sea- 

 son (* 7 ). 



8. Every farmer should have a book for inserting all those 

 useful hints, which are so frequently occurring in conversa- 

 tion, in books, or in the practical management of a farm. 

 Loose pieces of paper are apt to be mislaid or lost; and when 

 a man wishes to avail himself of them, for examining a sub- 

 ject previously investigated and discussed, he loses more 

 time in searching for the memorandum, than would be suf- 

 ficient for making half a dozen new ones. But if such mat- 

 ters are entered into a book, and if that book has a table 

 of contents or index, he can always find what he wants, and 

 his knowledge will be in a progressive state of improvement, 

 as he will thus be enabled, to derive advantage, from his 

 former ideas and experience ( a8 ). 



By the adoption of these rules, every farmer will be mas- 

 ter of his time, so that every thing required to. be done, will 

 be performed at the proper moment, and not delayed till 

 the season and opportunity have been lost. The impedi- 

 ments arising from bad weather, sick servants, or the occa- 

 sional and necessary absence of the master, will, in that case, 

 be of little consequence, nor embarrass the operations to be 

 carried on ; and the occupier will not be prevented, from at- 

 tending to even the smallest concerns connected with his 

 business, on the aggregate of which his prosperity depends (* 9 ). 



