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both produce and prices are fo varied by local cir- 

 cumftances, that, as he obferves, " no fettled in- 

 variable rules for the management of the dairy can 

 with any propriety be eftablifhed." The quantity 

 of produce of each article fpecified, may be eafily 

 afcertained on any dairy, but the fuperior advan- 

 tage of any courfe can be determined only by the 

 demands which arife or are promoted by peculia- 

 rities of fituation. 



It is afferted in the faid article, cc That a tenant 

 of 6ol. per annum, in a dairy farm, will get money, 

 while a corn-farm of the fame fize will ftarve its 

 occupier, (though perhaps the former gives 15s, 

 per acre for his land, and the other but 10s.) is 

 felf-evident." This is by no means a neceflary 

 truth arifing from caufes eftablifhed in the nature 

 of the thing, but has its foundation in artifice, as 

 will be fhewn hereafter. However, this is not the 

 interefting queftion. Is it felf-evident, or by any 

 means demonftrable, that a corn-farm of 10s. per 

 acre, which would ftarve its occupier, is by any 

 method convertible into a dairy-farm ; and that if 

 the plough fhould be abandoned, and fuch land 

 fuffered to recur to its original and natural pro- 

 duce, as in that cafe it muft do, would it not ftarve 

 the occupier, even if he gave but 5s. per acre for 

 fuch land? . 



