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ment, than four bushels to one acre, 

 fifteen bushels produce will be as great as 

 any in England, from one bushel. Sup- 

 posing this to be wheat, as three bushels 

 are sown on one acre in England, a pro- 

 portion, in the produce, of fifteen bushels 

 to the American acre, will be forty-five 

 bushels to the English acre ; which I dare 

 say an English farmer wall allow a very 

 great produce. Now in barley, one 

 bushel per American acre, and four 

 bushels to the English acre, in a regular 

 proportion, allowing in England forty- 

 eight bushels to the acre, the acre of 

 barley will be twelve bushels in America. 

 And on land improper for oats, w^hich is 

 allowed to be the case with the American 

 land, if five bushels of oats be sown on an 

 English acre, the produce will be thirty- 

 two bushels ; the American acre, in th« 

 like proportion, will be one-fifth, which 

 will be six bushels and two-fifths per acre 

 from one bushel sown on an American 

 acre. Now thi§ will prove that the author 



