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intend, and manage cattle ^ and, In. a 

 word, the mofl regular fervants, in mofl 

 capacities. 



Having faid thus much of large and 

 fmall farms, I lliall venture to defcribe 

 the fizes, which I think would be mofl 

 conducive to public and private benefit. 

 And in doing this, I wifh to avoid an 

 extreme ; for though a redudtion be ef- 

 fentially neceilary, it ought not to be 

 made upon too low a fcale ; becaufe I 

 am convinced, that the nature of our 

 foil will not admit of that univ erf al plan ^ 

 of farms fo low as twenty and thirty 

 acres, which fubfifts in Flanders. For 

 though it be our intereft to imitate 

 them, I wifh not to copy them exadly. 

 It is undoubtedly proper, and beneficial 

 to a country, that farms fhould vary in 

 their fize, as much as pofliblci but, in 

 my opinion, which I deliver with defer- 

 P 4 ence, 



