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The fixth farm in the lift is that one 

 third of which is grafs, and two thirds 

 arable: it is the proportion of the grafs 

 that renders this more advantageous than 

 others. 



Next comes the arable farm improved 

 with marie, chalk, or clay : it is not to be 

 wondered at that the preceding ones fhould 

 be more profitable than this, which is im- 

 proved at fo great an expence of labour, on 

 which is a charge to the gentleman of 27 

 per cent. ; but, improved or not improved, 

 arable farms can, in no common manage- 

 ment, equal grafs ones to a gentleman. 



The eighth farm is the arable one, the 

 foil light enough for turnips, which pays 

 10 per cent, ; but this, like others of the 

 fame fort, is by no means to be recom- 

 mended to gentlemen. The ninth and 

 tenth are the clay ::rable under different 

 management ; and the worft of all, the 

 profit fo fmall, that unfpecified dedudions 

 would vaftly more than fwallow it up. 



Farming, upon the whole of this view, 

 appears, under a proper diredion, to be ex- 

 tremely profitable to gentlemen ; but it like- 

 wife appears, that if the money is expended 



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