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ever quantity they wanted. But fincc 

 fmall farms have decreafed in number, 

 no fuch articles are to be had -, for the 

 great farmers have no idea of retailing 

 fuch fmall commodities, and thofe who 

 do retail them, carry them all to-towns. 

 A farmer is even unwilling to fell the 

 labourer who works for him a bufhel of 

 wheat, which he might get ground for 

 three or four pence a buihel. For want 

 of this advantage he is driven to the 

 meal-man, or baker, who in the ordi- 

 nary courfe of their profit, get at lead: 

 ten per cent, of them, upon this princi- 

 pal article of their confumption ; which 

 they might fave, if their employers would 

 fupply them with corn at the common 

 market-price. In fhort, they labour 

 under every difcouragement. For the 

 very perfons who have the advantage of 

 their labour, and whofe duty it is to make 

 tbeif iituation comfortable, are often their 



greateft 



