The farmer's magazine - 1806 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: to afford more than what can be given for the purpofes of the farmer j though fuch of them as have fecurity of permanence of trade, might with for fimilar perman... more »ence of pofieffion pf the lands that fuit them, which too rhey may generally command, from the greater fecurity they hold out for the rent. Yet, where the lands are of that defcription, as would deteriorate without alternation of tillage and pafture, it is evident, from the well-known principles of the divifion of labour, that to be tied to fuch occupation, as would breed fuch diftraftion of application and employment, could not fail to be to them highly incommodious. ,The quantity of land, occupied by thofe of this de-' fcription, muft neceflatily be very limited. A greater quantity of grafs land, than thefe faid halting places, is required by profcffional graziers—a fort of middlemen too, like the former, though of longer interval; fomewhat approaching to the defcription of cultivating farmers, becaufe they improve the cattle they purchafe before bringing them again to market; yet differing, in that they neither cultivate land nor breeds of ftock-cattle. Annual occupation of land would feem alfo to fuffice for this defcription, as, upon the principles of fub- divifion of labour, thefe too would be incommoded, in being tied to the occupation of lands needing alternation of culture. They may be confidered as (landing in the fame relation to the cultivators of the foil, as the wholefale merchant to the manufacturer ; they are ready to take, wholefale, off his hands, fuch fields as he has manufactured into proper grafs, and to retail out its produce, in the fhape of fattened cattle, either immediately to the con- fumer, or to the intervening middlemen before defcribed. Per- rmnenf refidence would be rather inconfiftent wi...« less