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The planting is to cost only a quarter of a dollar 

 an acre. The planting will cost a dollar an 

 acre. The horse-hoeing in your grassy land, 

 two dollars. The hand-hoeing, which must be 

 well done, or you will have no corn, two dollars ; 

 for, in spite of your teeth, your rampant natural 

 grass will be up before your corn, and a man 

 must go to a thousand hills to do half an acre a 

 day. It will cost two dollars to harvest a hun 

 dred bushels of corn ears. So that here are about 

 400 dollars of expences on the Corn alone, to 

 be added. A trifle, to be sure, when we are 

 looking through the Transalleganian glass, 

 which diminishes out-goings and magnifies in 

 comings. However, here are four hundred 

 dollars. 



1007. In goes the plough for wheat? "In 

 " him again ! Twenty more !" But, this is in Oc 

 tober, mind. Is the Corn off? It maybe; but, 

 where are the four hundred waggon loads of corn 

 stalks ? A prodigiously fine thing is this forest 

 of fodder, as high and as thick as an English 

 coppice. But, though it be of no use to you, 

 who have the meadows without bounds, this 

 coppice must be removed, if you please, before 

 you plough for wheat ! 



1008. Let us pause here, then; let us look at 

 the battalion, who are at work ; for, there must 

 be little short of a Hessian Battalion. Twenty 



