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with leeks, oatmeal, greens, &c. would go further 

 than two pounds of bacon in a family, and would* 

 be found confidcrably more nourifhing. 



SECT. 2. Extent of Culture^ and of each Specif* of 

 Grain foived. 



BEFORE I proceed on this fubject, I beg leave to re- 

 mark to the Board, that it is my humble opinion, this 

 fectton might be fomewhat imperfect, without includ- 

 ing potatoes in the difcuflion i therefore I (hall take 

 the liberty of giving them a place with the grain. 



It is impoffible to be accurate on this fnbject, with- 

 out making an actual land furvey ; and this could only 

 ferve for one feafon, fmce the quantity of land, under 

 culture, mull always vary according to circumflances, 

 fuch as the encreafe or decreafe of population, &c. 



Perhaps the bed method of determining this point 

 is, by attending to Doctor Beaufort's Memoirs, where 

 he ftates the county to contain 28,704 houfes, which 

 ftatement at this day is fufficiently accurate, notwith- 

 ftanding the fuppofed reduction of the inhabitants 

 by emigration, raifing militia, &c., which, in the 

 whole, are fcarce worth attending to. I believe, with 

 many others, that the county is more on the encreafe 



than on the decreafe. 



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