f 98 J 



Without a previous judgment, inftead of 

 being profitable, it will be attended with 

 ruinous lolTes. 



CHAP. XXIV. 



Of the mojl advantageous method of difpofing 

 of any fum of money ^ from 1500 1. to 

 30CO L in farming. 

 TN proportion as I advance in thefe in- 

 •*- quiries, ii becomes neceflary to embrace 

 a greater fcope for including in each chap- 

 ter a greater variety of farms ; but it i& 

 neceflary to repeat v;hat 1 have elfewhere 

 remarked, that the divifioni make of thefe 

 calculations into chapters, is not for exadt- 

 nefs or accuracy, but that the reader may 

 not be fo generally bewildered as he would 

 be, if the fubftances of thefe volumes w^ere 

 thrown together without any divifion. It 

 is for this reafon a latitude is taken in each ; 

 It would be impofhble to have the flock of 

 each farm in a chapter exactly alike, with- 

 out fo much adding, reducing, and fquar- 

 ing, that the real praclical proportions 

 would be much injured. 



Suppofe a farmer poflcifed of 1642/. 

 and haying viewed feveral farms, fits down 



to 



