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sand six hundred pounds in the other. In the con- 

 sumption of this quantity of provender, the resulting 

 manure would be worth from forty to sixty dollars, 

 and upward, according to the economy and intelli- 

 gence exercised in the care and use of it. 



It is also to be considered that, in the case of mut- 

 ton, the value of the fleece is to be added, as part of 

 the product of the acre ; and in the case of butter and 

 cheese, the value of the pork made from the refuse of 

 the dairy is, in like manner, a part of the acreable 

 product. It has been estimated that, with good man- 

 agement, the milk of a cow will produce a pound of 

 pork for every pound of butter. 



But there is another view of this subject that fur- 

 ther illustrates the capacity of an acre of corn for con- 

 tributing to the support of the human family. "When 

 the corn meal is converted into bread and other forms 

 of food for the table, it is found that three pounds of 

 the meal produce over seven pounds of bread, prob- 

 ably seven and a half pounds on an average. Omit- 

 ting the fraction, this will give more than thirteen 

 thousand pounds of corn-bread per acre, at the rate of 

 yield assumed above. In addition to this, the prod- 

 uct of the stover, supposing it to be three tons per 

 acre, would be equivalent to either of the following, 

 viz., to three hundred and forty-two pounds of beef, 

 two hundred and seventy-two pounds of butter, five 

 hundred and forty-four pounds of cheese, five thousand 

 four hundred and forty pounds of milk, or six hundred 

 and sixty-six pounds of mutton. 



This would support a family of seven persons for 



