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Many gentlemen, upon the credit of for- 

 tunes of between 3 and 4000 /. enter into 

 trade, If by themfelves, for a trifling bene- 

 fit, befides hope ; if with others, they are 

 little better than drudges to others, whofe 

 only fuperiority lies in the weight of their 

 purfes ; and, with the utmofl fubmiflion and 

 the greateft induflry, where will they turn 

 for greater profit? Here is above 1000 /. a 

 year from a bufinefs, in extent fo fmall as a 

 couple of hundred acres, I may venture to 

 hy independent of the feafons % all united 

 in one point of attention. No market to 

 attend, no baileys to employ, and in fhort, 

 the whole management to be little more 

 than a country amufement. Is it not 

 aftonifliTng, that a profefTion capable of 

 fuch things, ihouki have been fo long 

 flighted, and left only to the lov^eft of the 

 people ? The great profit of the farm in 

 quef^ion, will be difputed by numbers, who 

 have rieither tried nor been eye-witneffes 

 to the producft of lucerne and cabbages 



* It is no pnrndo\ to fay, thnt a perfc(5lly good farmer, 

 cultivating the moft profitable vegetables, is abfolutcly in- 

 dependent on the feafons, which in common are nothLng • 

 [h'Ji the bugbtar of floven;. 



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