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fruit per acre would amply rq^ay the injury other 

 crops might poflibly receive from the trees. 



Chefrttits are exceeding fine food for fwine or 

 other cattle; and ^eyond all doubt much more 

 nutritious than potatoes. For hunnan food, roafted 

 chefnuts are a principal part of the diet of the pea- 

 fantry in Italy. Apples, almoft every one knows 

 how to ufe. If the produce of plumbs and medlars 

 fhould exceed the confumption of the neighbouring 

 towns, they would prove fufficient in all probability 

 for bringing hogs to that degree of fatnefs neceflary 

 for frefh or butcher's pork; if they exceeded that 

 confumption, the juice might be fermented and dif- 

 tilled, and would probably yield a fpirit fuperior in 

 flavour to malt, and perhaps not inferior to French 

 brandy or Weft-India rum. 



If you have patience to perfevere thus far in read- 

 ing (I am afraid you will think) an uninterefting 

 letter, let me requeft you not to charge it to my 

 vanity, but to my zeal in endeavouring to point out 

 fome improvement in the prefent barren mode of 

 planting, fo univerfally pra6tifed in this kingdom. 

 To one productive tree, an hundred, if not a thou- 

 fand, barren trees are planted; inftead of the fir, the 

 larch, the poplar, &c. why not plant the chefnut. 



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