X.] VALUE CF CROP. 



this crop of mine would be worth, even at this 

 rate, 26/. 155. an acre, which, I will venture to 

 say, is more than three times the value of the 

 average crop of wheat this same year ; not to 

 mention the loads of good fodder : and, not to 

 mention, the fine state in which the crop leaves 

 the land -, not to mention, either, that this crop is 

 not six months upon the ground, and that it may 

 follow or be followed by a crop of wheat, without 

 danger to either crop. I claim great merit on 

 account of this undertaking; for, what can be 

 of so much importance, what can deserve so much 

 commendation, as the doing of that, which must 

 of necessity prevent the possibility (except in the 

 case of the judgments of God) of a scarcity of 

 food being known in the country ? We know 

 what the price of bread is at this moment; we 

 know what pinchings millions will be compelled 

 to endure during the approaching winter ; and 

 every one, who reads this book, must be con- 

 vinced, that bread instead of being thirteen 

 pence for the four pounds weight, would, if corn 

 had been in general cultivation, have been at 

 about four- pence a four-pound loaf. My crop, 

 supposing it to be eight hundred bushels, for I 

 always allowed that three of the acres out of the 

 eleven were not to be counted, having been almost 

 totally destroyed, and the ground having been 

 planted in the summer with Swedish turnips, and 

 M 5 



