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tolerably clean, well manured, drained, and 

 yielding good crops ; that the grafs is well 

 ftocked with a good breed of cattle, and 

 none of it over-run with rubbifh. When 

 men pay dearly for their farms, they learn to 

 value land, and let none of it be loft. On 

 the contrary, view the fame land let much 

 under the value, and twenty to one but the 

 profpect is, in every refpect, the reverfe. 

 One material point in fuch arrangement, is 

 the fum of money ufed to ftock farms ; when 

 the land is cheap, the farmer takes as much 

 as he can poffibly compafs, and necerlarily 

 overtrades himfelf ; but when it is very dear, 

 he confines himfelf to a fmaller quantity ; 

 knowing the price he has to pay for it, he 

 is fearful of having too great a fum go in 

 rent ; the confequence of which is, he is 

 always mafter of his farm, and cultivates it 

 the better : but he who takes as much land 

 as poffible, is fure to treat it like a floven. 



What is the reafon that we fee, in many 

 of the moors in the north of England, fo 

 many great tracks of land lying abiblutely 

 wafte, that are as well worth ten or fifteen 

 millings an . acre, as one milling is worth 

 another ? This refults merely from its being 

 in fuch plenty. If not an acre could be had 

 under ten millings, I have no doubt but 

 amazing improvements would be the con- 

 fequence. We fee in Northumberland moo? 



farms 



