The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

^3^LETTERS, TRACTS, b'r.crs do pcric£lly agree in on^ particular, which is,ilriviiig to let off their wares to the bell advantagepoUible, for which purpufc they, employ their friendsas emiJlaries, to pubhih abroaoRhe richne& of tlieland they have to let, and of the crops they have tofelLThe proprietor of a large track of land, fome yearsbefore the old tacks expire, begins to confider v/hathe has before him, and fets himfelf to work : He invitesto his houfe, from the differentquarters of thecountry, thofe who are reputed to have Ikill of land ;he entertains them liberally ; he {hows them therichefl parts of his farms, and, having put them intogood humour, fends them home to perfuade the fubilantialtenants in their reipeclive neighbourhoods,that his land is uncommonly good, and that greatand advantageous bargains will be got at his roup.The gentleman who hath improved his farms, haththis maniieft advantage, that,' for feveral years running,he can fhow the excellence of his crops ; whichcrops have alfo been often obferved, and admired byinch tenants as wilhed to have the farms they grewupon : He therefoie exerts all his eloquence, to perfuadeevery oiferer, that his land is uncomm.only true ;that it doth no;: foon wear out ; that, with very littlemanure and good ploughing, it will, during thecourfe of a nineteen years tack, bring yearly a fullbetter crop than tlvat which you now fee upon itOr, if he batli only rciled his land, cr fome part ofit, he tells you how richly it was laid down in grafs ;that he hath every year allowed the fecond cutting torot upon it; that every ioggage was. little worfe thana dunging *, and that it is greatly enriched by beinglong palturcd : AndJ'if he perceives tjiat many of youare dcfn'ous to have his farms, he tells you, he is indifferentwhether he let any of his land or not ; hetalks of the great gain he makes by "it himfelf^ butthai he fees fuch farms would be verv caovenient aad