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This example is sufficiently near the truth, 

 without instancing others from different characters 

 of inferior land, to show that if 6,000,000 worth 

 of foreign corn were brought into our markets and 

 sold for 25 per cent, less than 54s. a quarter, the 

 price which we have supposed may be the future 

 average of corn produced at home ; 25 per cent, 

 less would be rather more than 40s. a quarter, 

 which is from 2s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. higher than the 

 price at which Mr. Sanders says the foreign grower 

 can afford to sell at in good seasons, after paying 

 a duty of Ws. a quarter; and this 6,000,000 

 worth of foreign corn would prevent the produc- 

 tion of 8,000,000 of corn from our own soil. 

 And this 8,000,000 worth, though only the pro- 

 duce of 1,600,000 acres cannot be grown without 

 4,000,000 acres are kept in cultivation under a 

 system of alternate husbandry ; and which 

 4,000,000 acres yield 12,000,000 annually. 

 And practical men know, though the political 

 theorists do not, that inferior land is only fit for a 

 system of alternate husbandry ; that it is not 

 adapted for permanent pasture ; that the poor 

 strong land would be half the allotted period of 

 life before it acquired a good turf; and that the 

 poor weak land, if laid down for pasturage, would 

 not, to use a common agricultural phrase, keep a 

 sheep an acre, but would soon revert to its original 

 sterility. 



To produce 8,000,000 worth of corn 4,000,000 

 acres are kept in cultivation by a rotation of grain 



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