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 True, neighbour, you, with your vine- 

 yards, do make more from an acre than we 

 can > but who makes mod by 500!. you, 

 by expending it upon vines, or we from 

 wheat and barley ? This was a queflion at 

 which I was much pleafed : the other faid, 

 beyond all doubt from wines. But the 

 corn hufbandman would not admit it ; and 

 I thought, from the arguments on both 

 fides, which, however, were not very clear, 

 that the corn man had much the beft of it. 

 One circumftance, which, he faid, appeared 

 deciiive : A gentleman, faid he, who would 

 have thirty acres of vines in culture will 

 receive from them not more than 150!. a 

 year nett profit, yet his expences will 

 amount to above loool. every year, and his 

 original capital mull not be lefs than 1500!. 

 Now, that fum, with an annual advance of 

 loocl. would enable any man to farm feven 

 hundred, perhaps eight hundred acres of 

 corn ; it muft be very clear, that the profit 

 from fuch a quantity qf corn land muft much 

 exceed 150!. I think, therefore, that I may 

 fafely fay the common hufbandry is the mofh 

 profitable. This argument was, I thought, 

 a very good one; but, at the fame time, no 



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