34 MANAGEMENT OF ESTATES. 4- 



of management is principally owing the pre- 

 fcnt high rate of rent. 



Formerly it was the univerfal praftice to 

 plow with four oxen and two horfes^ toge- 

 ther with a plovv^man and one or two aiUft- 

 ants. This extravagant plow-team is now 

 unlverfally reduced to two horfes and a plow^- 

 man. It is at lead remarked by men of ob- 

 fervation and judgment, that without this 

 faving in the mode of tillage^ the prelent 

 rents could 3iot be borne. 



It muft be obferved, however, that the 

 lands let at the above extravagant rents lie in 

 eligible fituations, ' and are let in fmall par- 

 cels. The larger farms lie in general in lefs 

 eligible fituations ; and there are few, if any, 

 fo high as twenty fhillings an acre. 



To fpeak of the medium rent of the Di- 

 f^ricfl would be vague ; the rate of rent is, or 

 ofght to be, proportioned to the quality of 

 foils ; and lands worth from a pound to a 

 penny an acre may probably be found on 

 the fame farm. 



This variation of foil enables the obfcrvant 

 cuhivalor to make accurate diftindtions In 



the 



