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general, as their fervants are not acquainted 

 with it : but the little farmers might more 

 eafily come into it ; they do great part of the 

 hu(bandry work themfelves, and the whole is 

 under their immediate direction ; fo that, after 

 they have attained to the knowledge of it, they 

 could ealily put it in practice ; and the little 

 farmers in the neighbourhood would readily 

 adopt it likewife, for it is not only more eafily 

 performed, but it is likewife more profitable 

 than the common hufbandry. 



Suppofe, for example, fuch a farmer rents 

 nearly 80 acres of land, for which he pays 50 /. 

 a year; it has been ufual to reckon, that a 

 farmer ought to make three rents, one for his 

 landlord, one to pay the expeuces neceflary to 

 be laid out upon the farm, and the remaining 

 third to pay the expences of houfe-keeping, 

 &c. and to fave fome for his family. But, 

 as this has been the general eftimate a long 

 time, and before clover became fo general, and 

 the hoeing culture of turnips fo well under- 

 (tood as it is now ; likewiie before the mo- 

 dern practice, of the moft Ikilful farmers, of 

 introducing hoed crops of beans, peafe, cab- 

 bages, &c. inftead of a fallow, whereby the 

 expence of fallowing every third or fourth 

 year is faved, and a hoed crop obtained every 

 fallow year ; thefe are fo great improvements 

 in the common huibandry, that now it is 

 reckoned the farmers make a greater profit 

 of their arable Unds than three rents ; and 

 2 fome 



