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When the feed is to be prepared or carried to 

 the land for fowing, they too generally think that 

 the more they fow the more they (hall reap; and 

 therefore*, in mod places, are at double the ex- 

 pence for feed grain which they need to be, 

 without 'making any further calculation than 

 that of the difference of value between fix and ten 

 pecks per acre, on the fmgle field they are about 

 to fow. 



One reafon for this may be, that the farmers' 

 feed grain being their own growing, they confider 

 it as the old woman did her flour, when (lie cal- 

 culated the coft of her mutton-pies, and overlook 

 its real value. The flour is my own y faid (he; the 

 feed is my own, fays the farmer, and therefore I 

 won't ftarve the crop. 



But if large farmers would be at the trouble of 

 calculating the value of what they unnecclfarily 

 fow on two or three hundred acres of arable land, 

 the amount would aftonifli them ; for it is really 

 aftonifhing, and an object of very great national 

 importance; indeed fo great, that I am of the 

 opinion the Parliament would be wifely employed 

 in inftituting a Board of Agriculture, to regulate 

 this and other abufes of the art. 



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