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 conclude, that if the lize of farms has any 

 effect on the price of labour, it is that fmail 

 ones rather heighten it; and this is fome- 

 what confirmed by the latter : From 50 to 

 100/. in both is the higheft in the fcale ; 

 and the very large ones in both have the 

 cheapeft labour. This will farther appear, 

 by dividing the tables thus : 



Per iveei. 

 To 200 /. - 7/, 2 J. 



Above 200/. - - 69. 



Total Earnings. 



To 200/. - - - £• S° l i ° 

 Above 200/. - 46 6 o 



I do not offer thefe tables as abfolutely de- 

 ceive ; even their not being fo has its ufe ; 

 it ought to ftop that torrent of general notions 

 and vulgarifms, that large farms are the oc- 

 casion of every evil under heaven. How- 

 ever, this ftate of the comparifon mews, that 

 if the price of labour is affected by the fize 

 of farms, it is the fmall ones that raife it. 



The ideas mod common on this fubject, 

 will, from hence, condemn fmall farms. But 

 I mull: fo far be their friend as to affert, that 

 the propriety of the concluiion is not clear. 

 I by no means venture to affert, that railing 

 the price of labour is a peculiar benefit at- 

 tending them ; but there is much reafon to 

 conclude, that this effect is the lealt pre- 

 judicial. 



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