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land tliaiQ is fufHcient to bring up and fubfifl a poor 

 pcrfon ; bin I know that a fack of wheat would be 

 fuificient for hnx) to live upon at Icaft four months; 

 and I have fcen, that whtfre ^h^rc is one car of com 

 to be gleaned, ten poor people who are in want of 

 it, will go from afar to gather it. And if we admit 

 what Monf. Linguet advances, that there are poor 

 peribns who are ihamefuUy obliged to beg tlieir 

 bread on the very furrows which produce it in 

 plenty; in comparing this propofition with the little 

 quantity of corn which is fufEcient to fubfift a per- 

 fon, it is impoflible to fuppofe, that he is in danger 

 of being ftarvcd, becaufe his country produces a 

 plenty of corn. 



my friends, has made the following experiments with great preclGon : 

 30Tlb. of ground wheat, without feparating the bran, yielded a97lb, 

 of Aour, which produced 4481b. of pafle, and 43olb. of good bread. 

 A fack which weighs aoolb. will yield 2861b. of bread; and if solb. 

 he allowed for the bran being taken away, there will remain 2661b. 

 of very good bread, of which lib. per day will certainly be a very fuf- 

 ficient quantity for one perfon, who, with thefe a66lb. of bread, may 

 fubfift 133 days, or at leaft four months : Allowing a tenth part foir 

 the expence of grinding and baking, it appears that, according to 

 this calculation, a man in an uninhabited ifland who pofTefled but 

 threeTfourtbs.of an arpcnt of land, of which he could eaGly dig up half 

 an arpent to fow wheat, and who could, in the remaining part, culo- 

 vate fomc forts o£ pulfe, (of which I fliall treat hereafter) above all, 

 cabbages, would reap above 8oolh. of wheat ; he would then have 

 ^6oolb. to fubfift him ; and although he fhould have only aoolb. to fell, 

 yet this would fumifli liim with what fait and butter he would have 

 occafion for> and the ftraw would procure fufficient manure; andt 

 much doubt, if this fpot would, employed in any other manner, alRMrd 

 tiii^ fo certain or fo wholcfomc afubfiftcuce. 



I hope 



