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more numerous, we fhall be fure to make 

 a calculation that will not deceive us. 



Admitting this, there appears to be 

 a faving, by large farms, of forty pounds 

 a year, upon an eftate of one thoufand 

 pounds a year. But, on the other hand, 

 it mufl be allowed by .every candid per- 

 fon, that fmall farms let every- where for, 

 at lead, fifteen per cent, more than large 

 farms ; and that indiiftrious tenants upon 

 thefe fmall farms are enabled to give this 

 difference, by doing the chiefeil part of 

 the work themfelves ; by their greater 

 frugality in living ; and by availing them- 

 felves of a variety of little advantages, 

 which the great farmer will not ftoop to 

 pick up. Therefore after deducing the 

 four per cent, faved upon repairs, from 

 the fifteen per cent, difference in the 

 fcale of rent, it appears that there is an 



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