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and three pence per week. Then twenty 

 cows, at that rate, made twenty- six pounds 

 five shillings per week : from which sum we 

 must deduct six pounds ten shillings per 

 week for the cows' keeping ; and there 

 remains a profit of nineteen pounds fifteen 

 shillings per week, which makes for one 

 year one thousand and twenty-seven pounds. 

 The stock was kept up without loss by the 

 sale of the fat cows and the calves. 



To work the farm and manage the cows, 

 would require six white men, at one dollar 

 per day each, and one white woman at 

 three shillings and nine pence ; forming an 

 annual total of seven hundred and thirty- 

 six pounds two shillings and six pence : 

 this, with three hundred pounds rent, will 

 make a loss of nine pounds two shillings 

 and six pence. Now, supposing a man and 

 his two sons worked (which was my case), 

 and kept no woman-servant, the account 

 would stand thus: for three men, for one 

 year, four hundred and nine pounds ten 

 shillings j and the rent, three hundred 



