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would be annihilated. The landlords and clergy- 

 men without incomes. The tenantry without 

 homes and without capital. The labourers with- 

 out employment, and the means of obtaining it, in 

 poor land districts, extinguished. And the intro- 

 duction into our markets for two or three years of 

 of 6,000,000 worth of foreign corn would occasion 

 this distressing state of things ; would throw out 

 of cultivation 4,000,000 acres of land, employing 

 a capital of 20,000,000, and yielding produce 

 which would be worth annually 12,000,000; of 

 which 3,000,000 would be paid to the landlords 

 for rent, 6,000,000 to the labourers for wages, 

 for parliamentary, and parochial outgoings, and to 

 wheelrights, carpenters, blacksmiths, and other 

 tradesmen, and 3,000,000 to the occupiers for 

 interest on their capitals, which includes wear and 

 tear, and time of superintendence. 



For example, 4,000,000 acres of inferior land, 

 which produces 3 an acre on the average, or 

 12,000,000 a year, cultivated according to the 

 five course system of husbandry, there would be 



800,000 acres of wheat, average value 6 an acre . 



produces 4,800,000 



800,000 .... of turnips 2 1,600,000 



800,000 of spring corn 4 3,200,000 



800,000 .... of first year's seeds ) f 



800,000 .... of second year'sseeds \ ** 2,400,00 



4,000,000 12,000,000 



