Thirty- fix barrels of potatoes* are the common 

 .produce of half an acre, after deducting four barrels 



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caufc this grain generally follows potatoes j indeed it 

 is always the cafe in good land. 



Two and a half acres of oats I place againft a houfe, 

 or fix in family ; the produce in meal, upon an ave- 

 rage, 17$ cwt. allowing iiolb. to the hundred, which 

 for oatmeal is the general ftandard, being with more 

 cafe turned into pecks of lolb. without fractional 

 parts. This allowance will be found nearly one 

 pound per day, to eaqh perfon for the year round. 



for feed. This allowance in the grofs, to the whole fa- 

 mily, will be found better than 4|lb. daily, to each 

 individual. Between meal and potatoes, the daily food 

 for each perfon will be found to exceed 5|lb. 

 which, with the help of the garden in fummer, may 

 be confidered an ample allowance. Pigs and dogs, 

 of courfe, muft fall in for their (hare; the latter, from 

 their great number, certainly deftroy more food than 

 the former ; but this wafte of food our country rare- 

 ly considers as a grievance. How many pigs might 

 be fed, throughout the kingdom, with the food 

 thrown away upon ufelefs dogs, which are, by far 

 the greater part, a pert to the community. 



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* Of 20 ftone to the barrel ; for eafe in calculation, I 

 prefer the 20 ftone barrel, though the ftandard of the coun- 

 ty is generally 40 (lone to the barrel. 



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