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SIZE OF FARMS. 
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the unenclosed farms are small in general; the enclosed 
ones most commonly from 60 to 150 acres, but there 
are some from 2 to 5 and 600 acres each.” 
Mr. Darke says, “ the farms in Bredon are from 
JOl. annual rent to 5001.” 
The fields of the unenclosed parishes have a certain 
proportion always in tillage ; but the enclosed farms 
are employed, sometimes in tillage and sometimes in 
pasture, according to the judgment of the farmer or 
nature of the soil I have seen two farmers, upon the 
same kind of soil, manage their land very differently, 
and yet both live well and get money. 
The large farmers have certainly a turn to improve¬ 
ment, the small ones have not an opportunity, or sel¬ 
dom have it in their power; but there are many inven¬ 
tions proposed and introduced, and the sensible farmer 
unfortunately finds few of them that will answer.— 
Mr. 0 Ida ere. 
Mr. C. says, “ large farms and opulent farmers are 
of great consequence in times of plenty, by keeping 
grain till it is scarce or wanted; small farms are most 
useful in supplying the public with many articles which 
large farmers do not think worth their notice : it is 
therefore proper, on these and other accounts, that 
there should be farms of various sizes.” 
Under the article Occupations, I think I may ven¬ 
ture to detail some particulars of two farms in this 
county ; the one, a light sandy warm soil, in the hands 
of the owner, T. Knight, esq. Lea Castle, Wolverley; 
the other, a strong and rather cool soil, in the occupa¬ 
tion of Mr. Richard Miller, at Worley Wiggorn, an ham¬ 
let of Hales Owen, hut in the county of Worcester. 
They are both managed in a capital and spirited style. 
Mr. Knight’s occupation consists of about 350 acres, 
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