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are arrived will not allow of more addi- 

 tions, without fwelling the fize too much : 

 and as I h;j.ve carried the amount of flock 

 to near 20,000 /. I fhould remark, that the 

 extending it to a much larger fum, is not 

 a very complex work for any of my readers 

 to perform, according to the particular 

 circumftances of their cafes, which, refpec- 

 ting larger fums, muft be very rare. But 

 I fhould obferve, that the profit will be 

 found to increafe beyond the proportion of 

 the increafe of land ; which effed is caufed 

 by the extent of fencing, the buildings, 

 . and fome other circumftances. 



CHAP. III. 



Of hiring and Jlocking a farm of nhieteen 

 hundred and tijuenty acres of the better 

 fort of unculti'uated land. 



IN the preceding chapters I have confined 

 myfclf, as nearly as I was able, to the 

 average of circumftances, and not fuppofed 

 the foil in queftion, in any of them, better 

 than the medium of the forts. And this I 

 did, that a want of land might not be 

 objeded to me in any cafe ; But, for curio- 



fity, 



