616 
Thus, Pollux, thus the rover Hercules. 
Strove to attain the beamy feats above, 
Where i in the ne¢iar’d 7] 
They tinge the roferlip: % 
‘Thus, tiger-curbing Bacchus, aa thou climb | 
The home of Gods—Quirinus thi he a 
Borne on the iteed of I 7 
@y 
Beyond the flood of d 
To the EAix of the Monthly Mogatsing 
IRC hes NCES" prevented my 
fee r Magazine for June, till 
very le ee I thou!d have endeayour- 
ed before this to | -antwered the ob- 
jections which you correfpondent, G. 
brings againft my letter, on the compa- 
rative advantages of large and efi 
farms. 
What your correfpondent feems pare 
wi al anxious to prove is, that on 
As 2 — number of ie a and 













Sth. cafe in a trifling i pod do 
not mean to lay that a large tarm has no 
advantages, I only contend that the an- 
tion of {mall farms, and the prefent 
oe them to the very 
nitude that now we fo often 
Wadvantageous. By fo doing; 





Large Farms injurious, 
- would be no doubt 

[Sept. 
50 and the roo acres were true, there . 
ie As for the 
frnall farmer’s felling Ris hay and firaw, 
and bringing back ‘“ their value in coin,’ 
t is very feldom done. Perhaps near 
don, and fome few great towns it 
y, though even there manure is always 
rought back ; bur in the country, far- 
mers are obliteas by theif leafes, nine 
times out of ten, I may fay 99*imés out 
of 100, to expend all their hay and ftraw 
on the pr 3S. 
The charitable reafon given, viz. the 
mildnefs of the winter, wl ers did 
not thrath out their gral ry: 18) 
far from the real o onopol 
pat, onlys take pla hen tne 
e indifferent, and little doubt is 
if ed but that the crops of the two 
receding years were fo; and I alfoy 
that little doubt is entertained, 
‘was both monopolized a1 
market. Perhaps it wi 
-d by the farmer oa 

























but I knov 
» from faéts, that many far- 
mers did bu up, as well as withhold it. 
When I i at the {mall farmer is 
obliged to fell: scorn. at the ufaal time 
id not fuppote i could” 
to pay his rent, 
gument’againft fmall _ 
be urged as 
farms 




the price of grain tolerably low, ot 
the, yeomanry is very much Pg to be detrimen G. need not 
digo and one man = what be afraid of its /inking tou much. But 
would fuppo mein a ‘xefpecta TR: is the little farmer compelled to 
perhaps half-a-dozen. beet his land to thrafh? By the 
-He {. ‘the great foveal of ill ma- ufual time, I do not mean that he is 
nageme arming, 1s a the peepiag of ie hrafh it to.a day ; I only mean 
an unneceflary number of horfeé oxen tee to let tt lie fpoiling 




dds, as. i 
mber 
le ma- 
nagement of 
eEment 



va 
1to keep an unneceflary number 
es I allow, but ¥ am apt to believe, 
ya cultivation proceeds ofténer 
from too feygapen # from too many being 
employed; and as for the Altern that 
@ man can cultivate 100 acres with as 
~~ number of cattle that hee 
4s too extravagant to requirée 
If we are to reafon in this Manner, we 
may go on and fay 1000, cr 10,000.— 
Afierwards 4 arn aiked, if I never Heard 
of any other manure than the ue 
du ng hi > I have not lived moft go 
life in the country, withaut knowing th 
manure is chiefly obtained from. rhe f2 
yard ; ‘and it is therefore probable that 
the inal farmer will have the more - in 
Pere ony 1f G.’s afferticn about th 







acres, are equal to 9 the tory and an inclofure, do 
So abet 1h 1s a 

ae 
chand purfe-proud 
een a manufac- 
es not hold good, 
for here reafoning is ‘fuperfeded pes = 
for that the poor’s rates are generally in- 
in¢lofure taking place, 1s 
Nn to be controverted. I 
ind many inflawens 


is barns, lik 
farmer. 
* The cig! on ao 





out an incitement. to indu try, it 3s née’ 
to be concluded that I with all farms to be 
let to men, who by their care and pru 
ve faved a’ fi F i 
{um of money. 
‘iis who hasbeen thus prudent and 
ial probably do his ut- | 
land, properly; and © 
ing that an imcites 
ment 







hat w hich tends to eep P. 
"2 
