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mangel-wurzel ; supposing my crop to be eight 

 hundred bushels of shelled corn, and supposing the 

 corn to^'ield forty-five pounds of flour per bushel, 

 we know that corn makes more bread and more 

 pudding or mqre cake, pound for pound, than 

 wheat-flour does ; and we know that fifty-six 

 pounds of wheat-flour make seventy-three pounds 

 of bread; and we, therefore, know that these 

 eight acres of mine would, if thus applied, have 

 made upwards of eleven thousand four-pound 

 loaves ; more than three times the quantity, I say 

 and prove ; nay, more than five times the quan- 

 tity, that could this year on an average be made 

 out of the produce of eight acres of wheat ; and, 

 even upon the three acres, the mangel-wurzel 

 and the turnips (for there they still are) are a 

 good crop, where I could have had nothing in case 

 of a summer failure of wheat. 



167. To compare the ivorth of this crop with 

 that of other crops, we are not to content our- 

 selves with its value in itself ; but, are to consi- 

 der all its great advantages over other crops as 

 to the time required for its groivth ; the security 

 of it against wet hai-vests ; the state in which it 

 may safely find, and that in which it will neces- 

 sarily leave, the land ; and must never omit the 

 circumstance, that it may, and must frequently 

 render a bad crop of wheat, or a bad wheat har- 

 vest, of little consequence to the country. Such 



