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becoming a farmer. Where farms are fo large 

 as to require thoufands of pounds to (lock 

 them, a few hundreds are of no avail; and 

 where the farms require hundreds, fcores of 

 pounds will not do. Therefore the pofleflbr 

 of fuch fmall fums turns them into fome other 

 channel, becomes corn-jobber, beaft-jobber, 

 &c. ; whence often arifes a dangerous mono- 

 poly. 



Indeed, if the land-owner be content with 

 fuch a rent as the tenant can continue to pay 

 from his farm in grafs, one man might hold a 

 county for a fheep-walk. I knew an inftance 

 where a man and his two fons, neither of them 

 above fourteen years old, looked over five 

 hundred acres at lod, per acre. The land was 

 fo rich, that it would on an average carry four 

 ilieep to each acre, one bead to three acres, and 

 a horfe to five acres ; and in the winter two 

 flieep to each acre ; yet I have frequently heard 

 the father complain for want of work -, as one 

 man could look after a thoufand acres with 

 eafe in the winter — although (the land being 

 divided into fmall paftures, of from four to 

 twenty acres each ) the man and boys kept the 



fences 



