no TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



acre of land. Now, if 50 pounds a day were allotted to each 

 beast, there would be 2688 rations, or sufficient to feed seven 

 beasts during the year, from one acre of beans. 



Deductions of this kind are so far useful that they point out 

 capabilities; and, in the present case, clearly shew wh^t might 

 be accomplished at St. Helena, whenever a proper spirit of in- 

 dustry shall have been excited, and the practice of husbandry 

 generally introduced. Many people here may possibly assert 

 that such things are \m\iOss\h\e, ^' because they have never seen 

 them:" but unbiassed minds, when they see facts opposed to bare 

 assertion and opinion, can never be at a loss in deciding upon 

 points of this nature. 



When to the preceding details, respecting green-fodder crops, 

 areadded all that may be seen in the Laws and Ordiupuces, 

 Goat Papers, and St. Helena Registers, upon my experiments in 

 the culture of corn, and particularly of barley wheat, a judgment 

 can easily be formed, whether or not it be practicable to succeed 

 in agriculture on this island. 



Wth April, 1812. 



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