i65 ) 



than random-guefles. Accuracy cannot be 

 cxpedlecl ; bui the method of forming pre- 

 vious eftimates to the hiring an improveable 

 farm, will receive freih lights from reducing 

 bufinefs into figures, and at leaft give the 

 farmer a better clue to condudt himfelf, 

 than the unconnected ideas of the moft ex- 

 perienced cultivator. Experience itfeif, in 

 thefe matters, is fometimes ufclefs, if fhc 

 does not fubmit to calculation. 



The farm before me I fuppofe to be in 

 very bad condition ; or, in other words, in 

 fuch a ftate as almoiu eveiy farmer in the 

 three kingdoms knows where to find ^ 

 parallel. The fences in bad condition, the 

 ditches filled up, tlie foil poor and worn 

 out, flat, cold, and wet, but never drained : 

 fuch land as yields but an indifferent crop 

 with a fummer fallow, and wortli .iboi?t 

 lo s. per acre landlord's rent. The fifteen 

 acres old grafs, and (he reft arabie. 

 Stock, 

 Rent^ Ov. /. s, iL 



Rent of iij* acres, at los, - 57 lo o 

 Tythe, sit 4.S. - - 11 10 o 



Rates, &c, at 4/. - - 13 jo o 



M3 



