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under a complete culture, but fuch as have 

 had experience in them will be of a differ^ 

 ent opinion. 



The fecond farm in profit in the gentle- 

 man's fcale, is the 530 acres of arable clay, 

 which yields 23/. iSs. per ccnt.\ But I 

 muft remind the reader, once more, to re- 

 colled: the numerous circumflances which 

 are unfavourable to a gentleman in arable 

 farms, 'but which are of a nature unre- 

 ducible to eftimate. Thefe would make a 

 formidable appearance in an arable bufmefs 

 of 550 acres, and be a great dedudion 

 from the apparent profit. A gentleman 

 muft undoubtedly give his whole time and 

 attention up to fuch a farm : If ever he is 

 abfent, it muft be for a very little while 

 at once, unlefs he employs a bailey ; he or 

 his fubflitute muft always be at home. 

 Now a moment's confideration will tell us, 

 to what an undifcovered amount a bailey 

 may be a knave, when near 35C0 /, a 

 year goes through his hands in pay- 

 ments and receipts ; and his mafter, from 

 the very circumftancc of employing him, 

 either ignorant, or to feme degree indo- 

 lent, both equally fatal, and laying him 

 open to deceit. I repeat this circumftance, 



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