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I take the price of land, feeds, &c. to be the 

 fame in both cafes: here, then, is a net profit 

 of 2/. lyj. id. per acre, no defpicable thing. — 

 But there are other confiderations independent 

 of the firft: profit, which render my method ftill 

 more preferable to the old one. By the old 

 method you mud of neceffity employ a number 

 of labourers; a circumftance always at ended 

 with trouble; for, unlefs the mafter follows 

 them diligently, and watches them narrowly, 

 he will often pay full price for having his work 

 half done; and the vexation a good farmer muft 

 undergo from the frequent refracftory beha- 

 viour of labourers certainly deferves a place in 

 the account. I had rather manage ten acres of 

 land with horfes, and dired them myfelf, than 

 three acres with men, and have the plague of 

 following and wacching them in the old method. 

 My fatigue, I am fure, would be much lefs 

 with the dumb animals, even if v/e join afTes 

 to the number, Suppofing I had determined 

 to cultivate the ten acres myfelf, there will be 

 ten days ploughing — drilling, five days — fovv- 

 ing, one day — ploughing to kill weeds, three 

 hours twice, and fix hours the third and laft 



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