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 gained under more favourable tenures. It is 

 therefore of great confequence, that farmers 

 know the profit oi:' improving of fuch lands, 

 which, though not equal to fome other foils, 

 is yet confiderable, and may, by certain fa-- 

 vourable circumflances, be pofTibly carried 

 to as high a pitch. 



The lafl: farm is the light foil, marled, 

 chalked, or clayed, vv'hich pays near i8 per 

 cent. ; a profit that is certainly very con- 

 fiderable ; but I do not apprehend thefe 

 kind of farms will often be found as pro- 

 fitable, as the clay is already improved. 



The firft farm in the gentleman's lifl:, 



and which pays fo great an intereil as 

 33 /. 12 s, per cent, is that cultivated under 

 cabbages and lucerne. It is worthy of re- 

 mark, that fuch noble profit (and which 

 has undergone the dedudion of 27 per cent, 

 on all the labour of it) can be made of a 

 culture perfe^flly well adapted to the fitua- 

 tion of gentlemen, (more fo than any farm 

 can be that has any tillage on it,) and which 

 is fo very fimple in all the management. 

 It is a point of no trivial confequence to 

 this clafs of cultivators, not only to have 

 iheir buying and felling contracted into as 



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