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Throughout the preceding calculation,, 

 I have deducted the 27 per cent, on labour, 

 although that is fomewhat inconfiftent with 

 the plan ; for it would be idle to fuppofe 

 a man engaged in agriculture to the 

 amount of above 20,000 /. without a better 

 knowledge of the practical parts of it, than 

 thofe gentlemen profefs, who are at prefent 

 generally employed in it. And herein I 

 mean the oeconomical parts of it. If a 

 gentleman undertakes fuch improvements 

 as here fketched, he ought to know fo 

 much of the matter as at leaft to render the 

 27 per cent, on labour, all the deductions 

 to be made on account of his being a 

 gentleman : nor is this an improbable 

 fuppofition, if it be confidered how fmall a 

 part of this farm is under corn, which is 

 the moft complex part of his bufmefs. 



There are many wades, wherein five 

 times, and even ten times, as much good 

 land is to be feen as I have fuppofed : a 

 want of that can never be urged. 



But it matters not a groat to the great 



point of improvement, whether the rate 



per cent, be 34 or 17, whether a man 



makes 160,000 /. in fix or in fixteen years. 



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