52. Necessity of advances for cultivation.
Every species of labour, of cultivation, of industry, or of
commerce, require advances. When people cultivate the ground, it
is necessary to sow before they can reap; they must also support
themselves until after the harvest. The more cultivation is
brought to perfection and enlivened, the more considerable these
advances are. Cattle, utensils for farming, buildings to hold the
cattle, to store the productions, a number of persons, in
proportion to the extent of the undertaking, must be paid and
subsisted until the harvest. It is only by means of considerable
advances, that we obtain rich harvests, and that lands produce a
large revenue. In whatever business they engage, the workman must
be provided with tools, must have a sufficient quantity of such
materials as the object of his labour requires: and he must
subsist until the sale of his goods.
