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food would more or less correspond with the decrease 

 of demand for home grown corn. In this way the 

 transition from one kind to another kind of produc- 

 tion might take place without even passing loss to 

 the owners of land. If, then, bread is to be made 

 cheap, the cheaper the better, and the sooner the 

 better for the landlords." Yet it is asserted by the 

 author whose opinions I have just quoted, that 

 when this land is appropriated to the production of 

 grass and other things, not corn, the labour employed 

 upon it will not be diminished ; that though the 

 production of corn, which has employed the great 

 mass of agricultural labourers, is to be exchanged for 

 the production of animal food, milk, butter, cheese, 

 the production of vegetables and other perishing com- 

 modities, yet still as many labourers will be required 

 in the production of these as in the production of 

 corn ; so that none of the peasantry will be thrown 

 out of employment hy the transition ; but that there 

 will be an enlarged field of employment and higher 

 wages ; that the tenants would not suffer, if bread 

 were made suddenly cheap ; for the demand for farm 

 produce, not corn, would at once equal if not exceed 

 the present demand for corn and other things toge- 

 ther. Therefore, none of the classes comprising the 

 landed interest would suffer by the transition. If it 

 were certain that by this change the circumstances 

 of the lower orders would be so improved that they 

 would be enabled to consume all the animal food and 

 and other productions of the land which now grows 

 corn, which sober-minded men, I think, will not 



