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the farm, while the rent per acre Is not 

 lowered on account of fize, the more 

 advantageous to the landlord j and parti- 

 cularly, when many new buildings are to 

 be ere6led, or old ones completely repaired. 

 For fuppcfing a new farm-houfe to loo 

 acres of land cofls 150/. another to a 

 thoufand acres undoubtedly will not come 

 to ten times as much, nor near it ; To that 

 the amount of buildings on fmall farms 

 will render them very difadvantageous, un- 

 lefs the ftate of the country occafions a 

 particular demand for them. 



Another circumfbance to be confidered, 

 is the proportion between the fize of the 

 fields and that of the farm : fmall fields 

 fuit fmall farms, but are very ridiculous for 

 large ones. In an hundred acres divided 

 into fmall inclofures, a vafl: proportion of 

 the land is loft in hedges, ditches, borders, 

 ^c. the maintaining the fences is a con- 

 ftant expence to the tenant ; and the fmali- 

 nefs of the fields is a lofs in ploughing 

 from the fliortnefs of the furrows : ail 

 thefe circumftances render large fields 



greatly preferable to fmall ones unlefs 



the farm be fmall, in which cafe the ne- 

 cefiity of fmall ones more than balances 



fuch 



