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in this, which may. not be at once compre- 

 hended. 



Eight horfes I allow to this farm, upon 

 account of the great quantity of carting to 

 be done on it ; when it is improved two 

 horfes mull: be fold, if the whole is kept 

 in arable, and more, if part of it be laid 

 clown to grafs. The four ploughs are 

 bought, to be in readinefs in cafe all the 

 horfes, at a pinch, fhould be fet to that 

 work. 



I fuppofe the laft farmer to have given 

 three earths to a portion of the farm for 

 wheat ; but the new one to rejed its being 

 fown, as that would throw him fo much 

 the longer out of his improvements. This 

 is uncommon in practice, but highly prac- 

 ticable and expedient: the reafon why we 

 fee nothing of this fort among farmers is, 

 their grafping at large quantities of land : 

 When they hire to impro'vc, they take fo 

 much, that but little can be done in a year; 

 confequently, the work is a tedious w^hile 

 executing, and the Icafe is three-fourths 

 expired before it is finiflied, and others in 

 a fituation to reap the benefit of his labours. 



^ If the improvement of a firm is in 

 ^qucftion, nothing can be clearer than the 



propriety 



