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The article furniture I have inferted from 

 the minutes, as truth required me to do, it 

 being the average of thofe accounts which 

 gave it diflin&ly ; but there is great reafon 

 to believe that furniture does not equal im- 

 plements in general : But I do not fubflitute 

 a conjecture, becaufe the total undoubtedly 

 remains under the truth: And this, I think, 

 is obvious for more reafons than one. 



The total live flock, according to the 

 fums poiTeiTed by farmers at (rocking their 

 farms, is 36,480,000/. but by the other 

 calculation it amounts to 57*365, 721 /. the 

 difference of the firft fum from the total 

 flock, cannot be lefs than the variation of 

 thefe fums ; for it mufl be confidered, that 

 not one farmer in an hundred has, at firft 

 coming into a farm, nearly the flock he 

 poffeffes a few years afterwards. All of them 

 hire too much land to flock it fully ; they 

 increafe it by degrees, till they have the 

 proper quantity. No truth in hufbandry 

 can be more generally known than this. 

 But the articles implements and furniture are 

 in the fame predicament, and increafe pro- 

 portionably -, confequently fhould be calcu- 

 lated by the proportion of the two amounts 

 of live flock; but this I (hall defifl from, as 

 I think thefe articles appear to be propor- 

 tionably higher than live flock. 



I apprehend the difference between the 

 ilock on entering a farm, and the flock 



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