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29 ^- 12 J. per cent. That product is very 

 great. Throughout moil of the preceding 

 chapters, the .clay foils, that are rich and 

 well managed, have yielded a vaft profit ; 

 and 1 am well convinced, that no foil 

 exifts (in iar^^e quantities) that can equal it 

 in profit. When a man meets with fuch, 

 he fhould not be frightened at high rents. 

 Rent is a trifle, compared to many other 

 circumftances. 



The fecond farm in the lift, is the 706 

 acres all grafs, which ' nearly equals the 

 firft in the reinainder of profit ; but, if the 

 circumftances that cannot be " calculated 

 were taken into the account, thiis would be 

 found the moft profitable of all. It is a 

 circumftance peculiar to thefe farms, th^it 

 a large one is managed with nearly as little 

 trouble as a fmall one. The bufinefs I have 

 fketched is fo fimpTe and uniform, that one 

 day's work may atiiioft be faid to be the 

 whole of the farmer's real employment; he 

 buys his ftock all in one lot at a fiiir, and has 

 little more to do with them ; for the driving 

 them off to Smithfiekl is not his work After 

 a year or two's dealing, fuch a grafier will 

 find his moft advantageous way of pur- 

 chafing 



