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dlan-corn to raise, for the use of the family, 

 and for the cows ; the hogs to feed ; and a 

 garden to manage ; there will consequently 

 be little to send to market, to raise money 

 on. None of those tobacco plantations have 

 more than about five acres of wheat, which, 

 if a good crop, will be forty bushels, at eleven 

 shillings per bushel. Supposing five bushels 

 for seed the next year, there will be thirty- 

 five bushels to sell: which will producenine- 

 teen pounds five shillings. Now this busi- 

 ness may be carried to any extent that the 

 reader pleases. I only give this as a compa- 

 rison ; and the more it is extended, the 

 less it will pay per acre. By this proceed- 

 ing, there will be the following crops : 

 twenty acres of tobacco, five acres of 

 wheat, twenty acres of Indian corn, and 

 twenty acres of oats or rye ; and those 

 corn 'and grain crops will not pay more 

 ciiati cxpences, as the land will be exhaust-* 

 ed ; and all i.h^ dung that can be spared 

 from the garden, must be applied to the 

 tobacco land. This will cause sixty-five 



