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pounds, makes seven hundred and nine 

 pounds ten shillings ; leaving a balance of 

 profit of three hundred and eighteen 

 pounds. By this a man might live, but not 

 equally comfortable as an English farmer 

 who pays the same rent. From every in- 

 formation I could procure, whilst in Ame- 

 rica, milking of cows and selling milk is the 

 best business a farmer can follow : but I am 

 certain he would live with more ease and 

 comfort by keeping cows in a town, and 

 buying every article for them, than by tak- 

 ing a farm for that use, because land is not 

 worth the cultivation, and the produce is 

 sold for less than it costs in raising. I will 

 now make another calculation upon what is 

 the best land, and such as produces clover. 



