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merit, than four bushels to one acre, 

 fifteen bushels produce will be as great as 

 any in England, from one bushel. Sup- 

 posing this to be wheat, as three bushels 

 are sown on one acre in England, a pro- 

 portion, in the produce, of fifteen bushels 

 to the American acre, will be forty-five 

 bushels to the English acre ; which I dare 

 say an English farmer will allow a very 

 great produce. Now in barley, one- 

 bushel per American acre, and four 

 bushels to the English acre, in a regular 

 proportion, allowing in England forty- 

 eight bushels to the acre, the acre "of 

 barley will be twelve bushels in America. 

 And on land improper for oats, which is 

 allowed to be the case with the American 

 land, if five bushels of oats be sown on an 

 English acre, the produce will be thirty- 

 two bushels ; the American acre, in the 

 like proportion, will be one-fifth, which 

 will be six bushels and two-fifths per acre 

 from one bushel sown on an American 

 acre. Now this will prove that the author 



