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The ftock of cows, beads, and fheep, 

 bear a tolerable proportion to the grafs land, 

 coniidcring that the whole farm is at ten 

 fhiilings an acre ; as fome of the fheep 

 are kept on commons, the cattle would 

 be more numerous on an hundred and 

 forty acres of good grafs j but ten millings 

 per acre is much under the mean value of 

 good grafs. 



The article of labour is much below 

 what it ought to be ; five men and one 

 boy are too few for cultivating fuch a 

 farm in a complete manner, or, indeed, 

 upon the improved lyftem of feveral coun- 

 ties. And this difproportion will be found 

 the greater, when it is confidered, that, 

 in the greateft part of the kingdom, a 

 plough never moves without two men ; 

 confequently, a very confiderable portion 

 of this amount of labour is ufelefsly ap- 

 plied. The hulbandry that is conducted 

 with this ftrength cannot be good ; and 

 it is much to be regretted, that the average 

 of the kingdom mould lie under this de- 

 ficiency of labour. It was very natural to 

 conclude, that fuch would be the refult 

 of that part of the table, from common 

 obfervation, in mod counties. Very few 

 farmers employ the hands they ought : 

 The alignment of fifty -feven acres per 



man, 



