ii INTRODUCTION. 



totally ignorant of moil: things concerning 

 it : Hence the neceffity of being guided by 

 their fervants; a fituation which 7nay prove 

 beneficial; but which I would advife none 

 to truft to : Can it be doubted that a work 

 of this fort will to them prove a better guide 

 than a foolifh, prejudiced, or perhaps 

 knavifh affiftants. 



But previous to further remarks, it is 

 fomewhat requifite that I fhould inform my 

 reader, I do not pretend to inftrud, or 

 even refrefh his memory on points in which 

 I am myfeif devoid of experience. I now 

 live in the third farm that I have hired ; 

 the three almoil as different from each 

 other as poffible, and fituated in different 

 counties : In fearching for the two lafl I 

 viewed ^nd treated for, near 1 believe an 

 hundred. - — Thus I may in fome meafure 

 affert thefe flieets to be the tranfcript of 

 experience. 



There is no point of a farmer's life oi 

 fo critical importance as that of hiring 

 his farm. Courage and caution are then 

 equally neccffary to him, as to a general at 

 the head of an army; if the firfl predomi,- 

 jijit^s, he is in danger of feeing ipiaginary 



advantages 



