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have viewed several farms, which, for some 
years, have been in tlie hands of noblemen 
and irentlemen of great good sense, who are 
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a6f uated in every pursuit by motives of bene- 
volence to their country, and to every indi- 
vidual around them, and have remarked that 
they do not possess an acre of land either so 
well cultivated or so produ6five as it would 
have been in- the hands of a good pradfical 
husbandman at one-fifth of their cxpence. 
There are those who, upon a moderate 
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estimation, may be fairly pronounced to ex- 
pend some thiousands per annum more than 
the rent of their land in the mere attempt to 
improve the agriculture of the country ; and, 
witliout illiberality, it may be truly asserted, 
that so far from their experiments producing 
general 2 ood to the neia:hbourhood where all 
their great schemes of farming are carried 
on, they have had, in many instances, a con- 
trary tendency. The ordinary farmer keeps 
his eye upon the accumulated expences, and 
v;atches, with a malicious pleasure, the failure 
of crops ; and even attributes such, as no 
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