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attention of my reader, whilft I draw a fair compa- 

 rative eftimate of the expences and produce of a 

 turnip and potatoe crop. I have in neither inftance, 

 charged rent^ or any thing for manure, as I con- 

 ceive their demands in that refpedt equal. 



EXPENCES. 



TURNIPS. 



5 plough! ngs 

 4 harrowings 

 Seed 



Sowing - 

 2 hoeings 



If a very good") 

 crop - \ 



per acre. 



s. d. 



1$ o 



4 o 



o 9 



o 3 

 7 6 



POTATOES. 



2 ploughings " 

 I harrowing - 

 Planting - 

 Seed - 

 Hoeing - 

 Digging up, &c. 2 



76 



300 



PRODUCE. 



If a very good 

 crop, loofack 

 at 2S. 6d. per 

 fack* - 



] 



£■ 



O 

 O 

 I 

 2 



O 



S.d. 



6 o 



I o 



I o 



o o 



76 



O Q 



5 15 9 



12 10 



Even on the moft fuperficial view, the fuperiority 

 of potatoes is apparent, but when you take into 

 confideration the certainty of one crop, and the un- 

 certainty of the other, a farmer mud be an infidel 

 indeed who will not acknowledge it. 



♦ perhaps this might fiuriy have been put higher. 



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