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Repairs are chiefly done at the expence of the 

 landlord, and the charge of them is very coiifick-!- 

 able, not lefs, as I have found by experience, than 

 10 per cent, including materials. 



Farmers are very averfe to flacking (a), though 

 wheat is preferved fweeter and better on fladdles 

 than in barns; they are always crying out for barn 

 room ; and they certainly are indulged in a greater 

 proportion of it, than farmers in any other county. 

 It is not uncommon to have barns, upon looi. a 

 year, which coft 300I. there are many fingle barns 

 that have been lately erected, which have colt 

 eonfiderablv more than that fum ; and iome few 

 farm-houfes, upon farms of about 300I. a year, 

 have coft 1000I. This is certainly wrong, for 

 fuch buildings make a great wafte of timber, and 

 are unnecelTary and, moreover, very bad examples, 

 as one farmer will always covet a fimilar thing to 

 what he fees his equal in polfeffion of. I flrould 

 much rather fee a difpofition in the country, to 

 build a fumcient number of comfortable cottages, 

 for the induurious labourers, than to run into an 

 excefs of indulgence, where no good purpofe can 

 be anfwered by it (/'). 



Having fpoken of repairs in a general point of 

 view, I will add a word or two reflecting the nu- 

 tcrials. 



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