PLAIN FACTS. H 



a Field does is always mucli exaggerated wlieii 

 complained of at all. 



A farmer may, on an average, get one gate 

 broken in a season; if lie does, the carpenter or 

 blacksmith makes it as good as ever for a couple 

 of shillings, and a day^s Avork at eighteen pence 

 to a hedger, repairs many fences, of which the 

 materials probably cost nothing. 



If the farmer is rich, and a sportsman, these 

 trifles neither hurt his pocket nor mind; if poor, 

 he is sure to be remunerated. 



We wDl now look to the creditor side of the 

 accoimt. In the extent of country over which a 

 pack of fox-hounds has its fixtures, we may fairly 

 infer that a couple of hundred men keep hunters. 

 Not to exceed the mark, we will average these 

 at three horses each : some keeping six or more, 

 others one. This gives us 600 horses, consuming, 

 at the least, 1,200 bushels of corn weekly, some- 

 thing about 9,000 quarters of corn yearly, and 

 say,"! thousand tons of hay, — a pretty good lift 

 to the produce of the neighbourhood, — a kind 

 of free trade among neighbours that carries no 

 dissension with its eflPects. If we, therefore, take 

 into consideration the numbers of packs of fox- 

 hounds kept in Great Britain, it will be seen that 

 the vent through them of farmers' produce is 

 enormous, and the number of persons employed 

 equally great in its way. 



