398 



America. If a man sells his produce, he 

 must buy manure ; which would lessen his 

 profits much : and if he consumes his 

 clover, it will not make any such sum as I 

 have given credit for. 



There is, from the preceding calculation, 

 two pounds fifteen shillings and nine pence 

 half penny per acre profit : and those men 

 (who are chiefly Dutchmen) do their w r ork 

 themselves, and exist, having farms consist- 

 ing of from forty to eighty acres each. If 

 the farm be forty acres, and all the produce 

 sold, the farmer will make a profit of one 

 hundred and eleven pounds eleven shillings 

 and eight pence ; if eighty acres, one hun- 

 dred and twenty-three pounds three shil- 

 lings and four pence. His doing the work 

 himself, and being thus paid for his labour, 

 is the means of his gaining bread ; or there 

 are many expences to add cows kept for 

 the family, &c. which would take off the 

 profit : then part of his produce is flax for 

 his own use, which he and his family ma- 

 nufacture in the winter ; therefore, if the 



