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lars of expenses on the corn alone, to be added. A 

 trifle, to oe sure, when we are looking through the 

 Transalleganian glass, which diminishes out-goings 

 and magnifies incomings. HoweA'er, here are four 

 hundred dollars. 



607. In goes the plough for wheat? '* In him 

 " again ! Twenty more ! " But, this is in October, 

 mind. Is the Corn off? It may be; but, where are 

 ihe four hundred tvagon loads of com stalks? A prodi- 

 giously fine thing is this forest of fodder, as high and 

 as thick as an English coppice. But, though it be of 

 710 use to you, who have the meadows without bounds, 

 this coppice must be removed, if you please, before 

 you plough for wheat ! 



608. Let us pause here, then; let us look at the 

 battalion, who are at work ; for, there must be little 

 short of a Hessian Battalion. Twenty men and twenty 

 horses may husk the Corn, cut and cart the stalks, 

 plough and sow and harrow lor the wheat ; twenty 

 two-legged and twenty four-legged animals may do the 

 work in the proper time ; but, if they do it, they must 

 work well. Here is a goodly group to look at, for an 

 English Farmer, without a penny in 'his pocket ; for 

 all his money is gone long ago, even according to your 

 own estimate ; and, here, besides the expense of cattle 

 and tackle, are 600 dollars, in bare wages, to be paid 

 in a month ! You and I both have forgotten the shelling 

 of the Corn, which, and putting it up, will come to 

 50 dollars more at the least, leaving the price of the 

 barrel to be paid for by the purchaser of the Corn. 



609. But, what did I say ? Shell the Corn ? It 

 must go into the Cribs first. It cannot be shelled im- 

 mediately. And it must not be thrown into heaps. 

 It must be put into Cribs. I have had made out an 

 estimate of the expense of the Cribs for ten thousand 

 bttshels of Corn Ears : that is the crop; and the Cribs 

 will cost 570 dollars ! Though, mind, the farmer's 

 house, bartis, stables, wagon-house, and all, are to cost 

 but 1500 dollars! But, the third year, our poor sim- 

 pleton is to have 200 acres of corn ! " Twenty more : 

 " kill 'em ! " Another 570 dollars for Cribs ! 



610. However, crbps now come tumbling on him 



