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neither their wheat nor their flour could 

 be carried to Europe in good condition, yet 

 their ricCy the common bread of the country, 

 could. It usually is very cheap; and whilst 

 their labour is but 2d. a day, all the fruits 

 of that labour will continue to be cheap. 



Whether the great sources of the coun- 

 tries on the Nieper and the Danube shall 

 soon be opened or shall not, there is at 

 present such an apparent probability of it 

 as may induce us farmers to consider in 

 time how we are to avert the threatened 

 ill effects of a change that must be as sud- 

 den as important. The farmer of flashy 

 ostentation may especially think of re- 

 trenching wasteful habits : and whilst le- 

 gislators may wish that labour be apportion- 

 ed between husbandry and manufactories, 

 and gently promote it, they will be cau- 

 tious how they favour the one at the ex- 

 pence of the other. 



In the Ukrain and Poland y and on the 

 Danube^ labour is cheap, whilst with us it 

 is the highest in the world. When we 



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