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The real and genuine advantage of im- 

 provements, and the capabiUty of making 

 a great fortune, remain the fame : and agri- 

 culture, without fuch immenfe profit, is, 

 beyond all doubt, a proper fphere for the 

 employing the time and money of thofe 

 who want to employ both to advantage. 



Agriculture, upon the whole, whether 

 in cultivated or in uncultivated countries, 

 appears, from the preceding view, to be a 

 moft profitable bufinefs, and of capital 

 benefit not only to common farmers, but alfo 

 to gentlemen, and a more proper and more 

 eligible em.ployment for them than either 

 trade or manfadures, and in many cafes, 

 than the learned or genteel profeffions. 



But this profitablenefs, in all cafes, 

 depends much on the entering into the 

 bufinefs with judgment and fpirit. This 

 is the fituation in which a proper knowledge 

 of all the circumftances relative to the 

 hiring and flocking farms, is of great 

 importance. 



The turning hufbandry to good account, 

 clearly depends on the appropriation of a 

 fum of money proportioned to the bufinefs. 

 Jn this point all common farmers are 



greatly 



