( 157 ) 



avoid calling on gentlemen to pradife li 

 hufbandry lb fimple in its general bufinefs, 

 and fo greatly profitable as this. I ,have 

 fuppofed cows to be the flock, as being, I 

 apprehend, the moft beneficial ; but that 

 point may be varied according to the 

 gentleman's inclination. If he would not 

 chufe to have fo vaft a dairy as 375 cows, 

 he may employ them in numerous fitiia- 

 tlons in fuckling, or he may apply his 

 farm to breeding, or to fatting heifers and 

 fmall fteers. The only general rule he has 

 to obferve is, fo to proportion the two crops, 

 that the winter provifion may be jufl fuffi- 

 cient to anfwer the quantity of that of fum- 

 mer. The great advantage of fuch a farm 

 is, the fmiplicity of the bufinefs. There 

 are never but two crops on the ground, 

 and thofe both applied to the fame ufe ; and 

 whether that be dairying, fuckling, breed- 

 ing, or fatting, the whole bufinefs of buy- 

 ing and felling is performed at once or 

 twice ; and confequently, the gentleman's 

 attention not divided, but kept wholly em- 

 ployed in the culture of his two crops. 



His profit is very great, and undoubtedly 

 renders fuch a farm an object of importance 



to 



