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per acre. This might be done by the drill* 

 plough : but the boy would do it better and 

 cheaper; for the delay in the ploughman fill- 

 ing the hopper, and the ftoppages he would 

 undergo on that accounr, would prevent more 

 labour than the boy's wages would come to. 

 It will probably be faid. Where are thefe wo- 

 men and boys to be got; and who is to teach 

 them all thefe things ? I anfwer: A well regu- 

 lated farm fliouid be like a good fchool. If 

 proper regularity were eftablifhcd in farming, 

 the boys would teach one another, and the 

 mafter have much lefs trouble than he who 

 does not attend to any regular method. For 

 inflance, the fchool-mafler who has twenty 

 boys, and has them to beat continually, works 

 very hard. So does the irregular farmer. I 

 faw a farmer in the month of Auguil laft, one 

 very hot morning, by five o'clock, dripped 

 to his fhirt flubbing up thidles with a hoe, 

 to make way for the plough ; they having 

 grown fo fl-rong, that the plough could not 

 pafs for them. The farmer being prefTed hard 

 by the ploughman, I do not recolied^t feeing a 

 man work harder. The thirties were full of 



