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understood. — For the construction of aviaries, poultry -houses, 

 fish-ponds, &c. see Part IX. Of the conveniences pecu- 

 liar TO A RESIDENCE. 



CHAPTER V. 



OF THE SIZE, FORMATION, AND MANAGEMENT OF FARMS. 



The size of farms has occasioned considerable altercation 

 among agriculturists and speculators on political economy ; 

 some contending for their being small, others very large, and 

 others again for different sizes, limiting the largest to a given 

 number of acres. It is easy to see that all these schemes must be 

 equally wrong. It is one of the greatest blessings of this coun- 

 try, that there are farms to be had of all sizes, and of every di- 

 versity of yearly value ; by which means the unlettered but in- 

 dustrious peasant may gradually ascend to wealth and indepen- 

 dence ; and at the same time the judicious agriculturist, who 

 possesses capital and information capable of enriching himself 

 and introducing improvements, has an opportunity of embark- 

 ing at once and of reimbursing himself for the sum laid out. 

 The consequence of parcelling out the country in large farms 



