5 8 Report cf the. Briti/lj Conful in PruJ/taj Jan. 



would be mofl: fit to carry, being barley or peas, the calcula- 

 tion would fland thus : 4 flieDcls of h'.^mp feed would produce, 

 on an average, 10 (lone of hemp, valued at 6 f. - F. 60 

 8 flieffels of feed, valued at 3 f. - - 24 



Making together, Pruffian money - F. 84 



And deducing the feed fown, being 4 f!i. at 3 f. - 12 



would leave grofs' produce - - F. 72 



Oft the fame puee of ground there might be fown iffjeffels^ pro- 

 ducing a crop of 1 c ifiefFels of barley, valued at 3 f. F. 45 

 deducting the feed, 3 fh. at 3 f . - - p 



would leave grofs produce - "3^ 



On ifiiejfels of peas ^ producing a crop of 12 fheffels, valued 

 at 4 f. - - - - - 48 



and deduiSling the feed, 2 fli. at 4 f . - 8 



leaves grols produce - - - F. 40 



So that, in the grofs produce, there would arife a minus on 

 barley agalnit iiemp, of 36 f. in 72 f . ; and on peas againft 

 hemp, of 32 f. in 72 f. ', being about ^o per cent, on the for- 

 mer, and 44 per cent, on the latter ; the tow of the hemp be- 

 ing allowed againft the ftraw of the barley and peas. 



It is indeed true, that the farmer, individually confidered, 

 does not gain the whole, nor, perhaps, any thing more than a 

 very fmall proportion, of this grofs furplus, the greater expejice 

 of cultivation and dreffmg, confumiiig the reit ; but it feems 

 no lefs obvic'.is, that, whatever may be the proportion which 

 remains to him as a nett profit, the whole of the grofs furplus, 

 if the matter is confidered in a national point of view, falls to 

 be placed to the credit of the public j in as far as, M-hatever 

 the farmer gains lefs than the fum total of the grofs furplus 

 of the value of tke one article above that of the other ^ confifts 

 in money paid for the extra or greater expencc of cultivation 

 only J that is, in money p*d for hand-labour in the profecu- 

 tion of an opei'ation v/hich, at the fame time that it obliged 

 him to hire, enabled him to pay a greater number of indullri- 

 ous people than he would otherwife have eixher wanted, or 

 been able to maintain ; and if the acquifition of this furplus 

 would be an objetl of importance, fuppofi;-.g it to arife on the 

 difierence of the value of two articles of our export^ how much 

 more fo is it not, when, as in the prefent cafe, it would arife 

 from the cultivation of articles, without which, neither our 

 marine nor manufa£l:ures can fubfift, and for v/hich we would 

 otjjiervv'ife be obliged to depend on others, in as far as we 



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