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Now, It is certain, that thefe ten arpents would, 

 One year with another, produce fufficient to fubfift 

 two horfes and four horned cattle; or, which would 

 be much better, feven or eight horned beafts, of 

 which tlie profit would be more confiderable than 

 thefe fix arpents,* if three were fown with wheat 

 and three with maize, indifferently cultivated; and 

 this would be a certain profit, becaufe having his 

 lands better manured, and being enabled^ to give 

 them one or two more ploughings, his crops will 

 certainly be more plentiful, and fubje6b to lefs ca- 

 fualties, becaufe the ftrength of the produ6lions 

 would guard it againft accidents, and render it 

 more certain; he would have as much grain; he 

 would be enabled to fell as much or even more, 

 becaufe his cows and the produce of the other 

 three arpents, which I have not yet mentioned, 

 would furnifli him with food, which, according to 

 Monf. Linguet's wilh, would ferve him inltead of 

 bread ; he would then be richer and live better, and 

 his fubftance would be ftill increafed alfo from the 



• Three horfes cannot confume annually the firft mowing of fix 

 arpents fown with lucerne and fainfoin ; and as thefe grafles furnifli a 

 lecond crop more plentiful than the firlt, lucerne al-v^ays a third, and 

 Ibnietimes a fourth, and fainfoin often a third ; there would remain 

 from thefe fecond mowings, and the furplus of the firft, fufficient to 

 I'ubfiit four horned cattle. 



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