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LABOUR, 



RENT* 



LABOUR. 



SOIL-PROC. 



nearly equal to the rent of the land : for this 

 farm, if freed from game> is worth from two 

 hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds a 

 year. 



A farm of the fame magnitude in Surrey 

 or Kent could not have been managed for 

 twice the money. And this accounts for the 

 high price which land bears in Norfolk. Land 

 which lets here for fifteen Shillings an acre, 

 would not in Surrey or Kent fat twenty miles 

 diftance from LondonJ let for more than half 

 the money. 



The lownefs of day^wages * the quick dif- 

 patch of bufmefs ; and, moft efpecially, the 

 practice of plowing with two horfes, and going 

 two journies a day ; account in a great meafure 

 for the difparity. 



99' 



SHEEP. APRIL 16* The ftiepherd telling me that 



a cutter in the neighbourhood could extract the 

 concealed tefticles of ridgil lambs; and he having 

 laft year experienced the inconveniency of three 

 or four of thefe troublefome and dangerous 

 animals, I let him fend for him. This 

 morning he has cut three ; the whole number, 

 it feems, this year. They are now from fix to 



eight weeks old. 



Having 



