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them the example. But if the farmer be a man 

 of property, and keep fervants in livery, ladies' 

 maids, &c. thefe, by the tempting ftories they 

 tell of their manner of living in London, of go- 

 ing to the plays, &c. debauch the minds of the 

 lower fervants, who foon begin to ape the 

 others, and confider as beneath them the toils 

 of agriculture. 



If a gentleman wifhes to employ fome of his 

 property in making experiments in agriculture, 

 in improving the breed of cattle, &c. he fhould 

 keep fuch an eftablifhment entirely dillindl 

 from the reft of his houfehold, in a farm-houfe 

 managed by a farmer, who fhould work him- 

 felf and have a fervant or two under him. In- 

 ftead of referving one large farm for fuch a 

 purpofe, I ihould advife him to have half a do- 

 zen confifting of aoout one hundred acres each; 

 it might excice erxiulation among the different 

 managers, to improve with the greateft ikill 

 the land under their care. The fteward, or 

 fome other intelligent perfon, might give the 

 general dire(5lion, and fuperintend the whole. 



Whtre exceiTively large portions of land are 

 allotted to one farm, the houie, bnrn, fta- 



bles. 



