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above^ when tKe farms are fo fmall as 357. 

 a year, and where the inciofiire is d(3uMe 

 Yenced with walls for plantations ; yet if 

 ^we difpofe the farms on a larger icale, aiid 

 -as they ought to be laid out, vrz, 200 acres 

 to each, inflead of 70 acres, the expence 

 -will be greatly reduced, as appears by the 

 ■following eftimate, viz. 



Farm houle, out-buildings, and tw^o cottage 



houfes, coft — •— - — £, 2D0 



Inclofmg 200 acres^ with dry ilone wrJ!^, 

 -double fenced, for plantiiig, — — 400 



6do 



Iji this TTrairner 5000 acres im;. roved at 3 L prr 



acre, will coft — — ■ — £, 15,002 



'will contain 25 farm houfes, and 50 cottages- 

 Reckoning in each family fix perfons, the 



•tvhoie number of fouls will be 450. 



Plate!, fig. I. is a fcheme for building 

 eight cottages, and allotting land to each. 



In my firft calculation, where the crops 

 run in this rotation, viz. Turnips^ barleyj 

 clover, wheat ; the produce of e^ch acre in 

 tillage is 2/. As. 6d. yearly: But if wc 

 fuppofe ioo acres, or half of the above- 

 mentioned farm to be in tillage, a-ud only 

 25 to produce always wheat in conftant 

 fucceffion, (as I have proved elfewhere may 

 eafiiy be done) and that the drilled and 

 horielioed crops produce at" a medium 10 

 buiheis per acre, which h below tbe mark, 



the 



