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at that moment, so fine a piece of cabbages in 

 Long Island. If the American Editor of this 

 work had given his readers the bare, unim 

 proved, Scotch Edition, the reader would have 

 there seen, that, in England and Scotland, they 

 raise sixty-eight tons of cabbages (tons mind) 

 upon an acre; and that the whole expence of 

 an acre, exclusive of rent, is one pound, four 

 teen shillings and a penny ; or seven dollars and 

 seventy-five cents. Say that the expence in 

 America is double and the crop one half, or 

 one fourth, if you like. Where are seventeen 

 tons of green food in winter, or even in sum 

 mer, to be got for sixteen dollars ; Nay, where 

 is that quantity, of such a quality, to be got for 

 fifty dollars? The Scotch Edition gives an 

 account of fifty-four tons raised on an acre 

 where the land was worth only twelve shillings 

 (less than three dollars) an acre. In fairness, 

 then, the American Editor should have given 

 to his agricultural readers what the Scotchman 

 had said upon the subject. And, if he still 

 thought it right to advise the American far 

 mers not to think of cabbages, he should, I 

 think, have offered them some, at least, of the 

 reasons for his believing, that that which was 

 obtained in such abundance in England and 

 Scotland, was not to be obtained to any profit 

 at al here. What! will not this immense 



