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must be the Consumers' gains here ! The rent 

 of the land here is a mere trifle more than it 

 must be there, for the cultivated part must pay 

 rent for the uncultivated part. The labour, in 

 deed, as all the world knows, is every thing. 

 All the other expences are not worth speaking 

 of. What, then, must be the gains of the Long 

 [sland farmer, who sells his corn at a dollar a 

 bushel, if you, with labour at the Long Island 

 price, can gain by selling Corn at the rate of 

 five bushels for two dollars ! If yours be a fine, 

 country for English farmers to migrate to, what 

 must this be ? You want no manure. This'can- 

 not last long ; and, accordingly, I see, that you 

 mean to dung for wheat after the second crop of 

 Corn. This is another of the romantic stories 

 exposed. In Letter IV you relate the romance 

 of manure being useless; but, in Letter X, you 

 tell us, that you propose to use it. Land bear 

 ing crops without a manure, or, with new-cul 

 ture and constant ploughing, is a romance. 

 This I told you in London ; and this you have 

 found to be true. 



1020. It is of little consequence what wild 

 schemes are formed and executed by men who 

 have property enough to carry them back; but, 

 to invite men to go to the Illinois with a few 

 score of pounds in their pockets, and to tell 

 them, that they can become farmers with those 



