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Good land at a high rent is always better than poor land at 

 a low rent ; the average profit per acre on ^s. land was then 

 about %s. 8d., on 20s. land, 2gs. 



Grass was much more profitable than tillage, the profit on 

 20 acres of arable in nine years amounted to ;^88, whereas on 

 grass it was ;^3i2, or 9i-. gd. an acre per annum for the former 

 and 2^s. for the latter.^ Yet dairying, at all events, was then 



' Cf. above, p. 180. • Farmer's Letters (3rd ed), p. 372. 



