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detrimental, and although bread is a wholefomtf 

 food, yet neverthelefs, I am perfuaded, as 1 have 

 already faid, that perhaps (almoft univerfally) too 

 much land is appropriated to the culture of corn 1 

 and this error h very general in this country, where, 

 however, it is decreafing* 



I do not mean that lefs fhould be reaped t on the 

 contrary, I would wifli to have more plentiful har- 

 veils, becaufe fometimes we have a fcarcityj but I 

 believe, to accomplifh that, (as I have already faid) 

 much lefs Ihould be fown 3 and I am perfuaded, 

 from the bed treatifes on oeconomics, from the 

 obfervations communicated to me by perfons fully 

 experienced in this matter, and from the foundeft 

 phyfical principles, that in fowing lefs corn, and 

 putting the remainder of the lands to fome other 

 culture, there would be as much grain reaped, and 

 alfo many other ufeful produdlions. 



It were much to be wifhed, that we could return 

 to the principle of the wife Mr. K^iock, and 

 attend clofer to that plain and fimple fyftem of 

 Agriculture, which an experience of thirty years 

 has fully eftablifhed, and which you have defcribed 

 v.'ith fo much perfpicuity and elegance. , 



Your 



