62 Addrefs to the Society. 



In England a greater capital is neceflary, even though labour is 

 cheaper than in America, to render their lands equally 

 produdive, and the intereft of their capital muft be added 

 to the price of the produce. In Britain the average of labour, 

 when the labourer is lodged and fed, is below forty dollars 

 a year, here it is above fixty ; and yet the American farmers 

 can afford to fell their product fixty per cent cheaper than the 

 Britifh cultivator : Does it not follow then, that the fame 

 labour produces more by fixty per cent, and the whole difference 

 of the price of labour ? And where the cultivator, as is the 

 cafe with mofl of our farmers, is his own labourer, is not the 

 difference in the price of labour to be confidered as part of 

 his profit, fmce he earns fixty dollars where a Britifli cultivator 

 earns forty j and yet makes fo much more from his land over 

 and above this difference in the value of his own labour, as 

 to underfell the Britifh farmer even in his own market ? 



All thefe obfervations are intended to apply to lands in their 

 common flate, not to lands on which a great capital has been 

 expended in one country, and nothing in the other. Thus 

 I do not mean to fay that a bog meadow in America without 

 a ditch, fhall produce as much as a meadow reclaimed at a 

 great expence in Britain ; or that a piece of clay ground 

 in England completely under-drained, will not produce more 

 than a fimilar piece here without a fingle water-furrow : I 

 know too that thefe improvements are much more ufual in 



