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In the above statement, the whole amount of value of the 

 produce of each farm is calculated ; therefore, if the occu- 

 piers consume in their families, corn or meat, or corn by 

 any other horses than one to ride to market, or cart horses, 

 the value of such corn or meat must be considered as part 

 of their incomes ; which, according to my calculations, will 

 be, on poor clay farms (with my lowest valuation of produce) 

 not more than sufficient to feed, and plainly clothe, their 

 families, or to give their children any thing; beyond the 

 most homely education. The occupiers of good turnip, or 

 good grazing land, need not despair of getting, with 

 industry, and good management, and good judgment of 

 stock, a comfortable maintenance ; for the demand for corn 

 and meat (both of which they can produce at less expense 

 than the occupiers of poor land), must increase with our 

 increasing population. If a farmer were to ask his sons 

 what line of life they would like best, the chance is, even if 

 there were half a dozen, or more, that they would all 

 answer, farming. It is, however, the duty of the fathers to 

 be satisfied, in their minds, that their sons are likely to turn 

 out steady and industrious, before they consent to their 

 being brought up in that line, for to those who do not turn 

 out so, there is, in the life of a farmer, too many temp- 

 tations to pleasure. Farmers should also consider what 

 prospect they have of getting farms for their sons, before 

 they bring them up as farmers. 



Kail-roads will certainly cause a change in the value of 

 land, in different pails of the kingdom. The gross value of 

 the land, five miles round London, will, 1 conceive, be 

 lessened, and the land, fifteen or twenty miles from it, that 

 lies near a rail-road, increased in value, not only from the 

 facility of getting its produce to market, but for its conve- 

 nience of residence for persons who have daily business to 

 transact in London. Good feeding grass land, from forty 

 to sixty miles from London, has hitherto been of much 

 greater value than the same description of land, a hundred 

 and twenty miles from it ; but if the sheep and cattle fed 

 on it can be conveyed there at the small expense it is said 

 they will be, the distant land will be increased in value, 

 and consequently the nearer, somewhat lessened. 



The produce of a poor clay arable land farm, and the 



