For remarks,&c.

8IZE AND QCUALITV OF PARMS.

THE greater proportion of this county, is divided into what may be deemed large farms: for unless it is from some local cir- cumstance, it is very rare to find a farm, under one hanlelnec pounds a year. In the Vale of White Horse, indeed, some smaller dairy, and grazing farms are found; but I Vrnbn there are more farms, from two to five hundred a year, than of any

. other size.

BSERVATIONsS.

The remark I have just made, on leases held under corporate bodies, in some degree supersedes, what I should have to say on the growing evil, of laying small farms together. In the open and hilly parts of this county, there is indeed some plea for

large farms; since the soil is to be made the most of by that 5 kind of husbandry which depends on a large flock of sh eep; and which the little farmer cannot avail himself of.

But in the Vale of White Horse, and other parts where the land is 200d, or the country inclined to grass, there can de no reason, why farms in general, should run so large, as 300 or 400 acres.

his is a subject that has exercised the thoughts of many sen- sible men, and the pens of several authors of repute. I shall therefore withhold expatiating farther upon it, than to advise every person, who wishes to satisfy himself on this question, to compare the population, produce, and advantage, which the state and in- dividual derive, from 1000 acres of land in one farm, in opposi- tion to the same quantity of similar soil, divided into seven, or eight farms, of different sizes, from 250 to 80 acres, which may

be found in many of the eastern, as well as the midland countio

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