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Of the common farmer's farms, the mofl 

 profitable is the 530 acres on a clay foil, 

 which pays 29/. 14/. per cent, which is 

 certainly very confiderablc. The great 

 advantage of this farm over many of the 

 fame fort, lefs, refults from the feveral 

 parts of it being well proportioned to each 

 other. The fize of it reduces the price of 

 management, and enables the occupier to 

 keep a larger proportionable ftock of cattle; 

 both circumftances of no flight importance. 



The fecond farm is the 430 acres of the 

 fame foil ; which, being inferior to the other, 

 is a frefh proof of the benefit of a due ar- 

 rangement ; for the foil is the fame in both. 

 Thefe two farms, being fuperior to all the 

 reft, fpeaks much in favour of the rich clay 

 foil, in preference to others ; but the com- 

 mon idea is contrary. It is fuppofed that 

 O 3 • fortunes 



