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f. The tube from the granary into it. 



g. The fhed for the hogs to lodge under. 

 h. One of the pofls on which the gra- 

 naries are founded. 



CHAP. II. 



Hints to Gentlemen ivho farm for Pleafure. 



IT is fo much the fafhion and the cuflom 

 of the prefent age, for the nobiUty and 

 gentry to farm, that many of them embrace 

 agriculture as one among the number of 

 their amufements : It will not therefore 

 be improper, in this place, to offer a few 

 hints for the confideration of thofe who 

 apply a portion of their time and income 

 to fuch purfuits. 



I divide farming gentlemen into two 

 fets : F'lrjl^ Thofe whofe fortunes are fo 

 confiderable as to be above an attention to 

 ceconomical mimitia- : And, Secondly^ Such 

 as are not able to regard matters of expence 

 with the Hime indifl'erence. 



It is aWays to be defired, when men of 

 large fortune make the pr-adice of agri- 

 culture a part of their amufement, that 

 they would render even their pleafure fub- 



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