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In N^ 2. 27 per cent, on labour a»lone, 

 makes a difference of 5 /. 5 j. /j^t r^w/. be- 

 tween the gentleman and farmer In profit • 

 or, in other v^ords, the farmer, on compa- 

 rifon with the gentleman, faves more than 

 the interefl of his capital in one article. 



But, on the contrary, in the grafs-farm, 

 and that laid down to grafs, the difference 

 between them is only i /. 3 j-. and 2 /. 2 x^ 

 per cent. ; fo that, on the plan of calcula- 

 tion before adhered to, it is in thefe farms 

 alone that the gentleman nearly equals the 

 common farmer; and this appearance of 



■ equality is, in reality^ almoft as real as it 

 appears to be ; fuch farms not being open 

 to thofe complicated obje^ftions I have fo 

 often explained, but cannot calculate. 



If we throw our eye over the progreffive 

 table of the gentleman's "^vohx. per cent, we 

 fee at once the farms which are to him mofl 

 advantageous. The mofl: profitable is that 

 on a clay foil, in which cabbages are intro- 



-'duced in a common courfe : This farm 

 pays, 9 /. 6 s. per cent, after the dedu£lion 

 oi Q.'j per cent, on all the labour of it. This 

 is a ftriking proof, that gentlemen, if they 

 would make any thing of farming, or near- 



