( ^95 ) 



ejl'mate^ truly ! I am to graze 2000 heiftrs 

 in a country ivhere it is not proftable to 

 fat one! And a third, who has pradifed 

 breeding with equal fuccefs, might ridicule 

 the whole for not being founded on his 

 bufinefs. ^ And thus we may go round the 

 circle ; every calculation tolerably drawn 

 up, may be of ufe to fome places ; none 

 can be adapted to all. My bufinefs is, to 

 ftate certain methods of culture : I then 

 (under this fuppofitioa) calculate the fum 

 requifite to flock a farm fo conducted ; but 

 whether it be applied to the culture of corn, 

 grafs, or turnips, whether oxen or cows 

 are fed, or other variations, is not the 

 point ; the only bufmefs is, the fum of 

 money requifite, which will appear from 

 my calculations, though not accurately, 

 yet near the mark. But, in what manner 

 foever they might have been flvetchcd, 

 fomething muft be left to the reader to 

 make the application. 



Such a feries of calculations as this, un- 

 der fuch a variety of circumllances, and 

 varied fo prodigioully in every point, can- 

 not be thought to be conduded with an 

 eye fo much to accuracy^ as utility^ which 

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