CONCLUSION. [Chap. 



to derive profit from being the inventor or intro- 

 ducer of something, an infinite number of 

 millions of times better than any bean that ever 

 was grown ; because beans are good for no- 

 thing but for hqrses ; and because^ unless the 

 nation should be smitten with universal insanity, 

 they never will be used for horses again after about 

 five years from this day, of which you will be 

 convinced when you have read my book. 



181. Next year an acre of corn-seed will, I 

 dare say, be to be bought for a few shillings ; but, 

 even according to my price, this first year, when 

 every grain is so precious, pray make the com- 

 parison between corn and wheat ! To sow an 

 acre of wheat broadcast (and that is the 

 general way), I must have from three to four 

 bushels ; some sow one of these quantities, some 

 the other. 1 have heard of more than four, but 

 of never less than three. Let us take the average, 

 three and a half ', good seed wheat is not now 

 to be got under fourteen shillings a bushel, at 

 the least; here, then, ?ive forty nine shillings re- 

 quired to sow an acre of wheat, when the acre of 

 corn, even according to my price, costs, in seed, 

 only thirty two shillings. 



182. Such answer might suffice; but, such in 

 this case is not enough for me. I, not only seek 

 not to make money by watching the turn of the 

 market ; but I seek not to make it even by inge- 



