{ 10 ) 



Produce, L s. d. 



The fame, - - - 780 4 o * 



Expences, - - 695 18 o 



£^84 6 o 



Intereft, - - - 65 la o 



X". 18 14 o 



This profit is 6 /. 7 s. per cent, or in o- 

 ther words ruin, and yet the bufinefs is 

 very confiderable, would require much at- 

 tention, and the conllant rifque great in 

 fuch a fituation. Suppofe the gentleman 

 employed a bailey, that expence would leave 

 him but 3 per cent, for his money : Sup- 

 pofe he fold his produce only at 5 per cent, 

 worfe than the farmer, (no improbable 

 fuppofition), that deduction will leave him 

 without a fliilling : the product of one year 

 would foon be infufficient for the expences 

 of another, additions would be requifite to 

 his capital, and, in a word, two or three 

 thoufand pounds diffipated in a very few 

 years, and all on a farm fo fmall as about 

 2C0 acres of land. 



The profit of thefe farms is not to be in- 

 creafed by aiTigning them a certain num- 



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