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plainly the immenfe advantages of expend- 

 ing money in this manner. No landlord 

 poileiring fuch wade foils, nor any man 

 who can hire them to the quantity he de- 

 lircs, can ever lay out his money to better 

 interefl. But the profit is fo very great, 

 and fo few have reaped fuch ample har- 

 vefts, that doubtlefs many of my readers 

 will queftion the authority of the eftimate. 



I Ihall in anfwer to this obferve, that 

 though I have it not in my power to cal- 

 culate on abfolute data, laid down in par- 

 ticular experiments ; yet the points on 

 which I have formed the eftimate can 

 hardly I think be difputed: the expences 

 are indubitably above the truth, and v/ith 

 fuch allowances of various foits, as muil: 

 clear that part of the plan from the leaft 

 imputation of being exaggerated. 



The grand article is, the probability of 

 the land, when improved, letting for los, 

 per acre, in this refpecf, the reader muft 

 refie6l on the ftate of the farm.s; the build- 

 ings all new, and of the beft materials — 

 excellently inclofed farm-yards, upon the 

 mcfr convenient conftruciion.——— fences 

 in abfolute perfeclion, according to the 

 method of forming tliem, all the land 



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