POPULAR OPINION. 3 



prevailing article of diet with the lower or middling 

 orders of the people ; thence our farmers, whether 

 little or great, could never be more profitably em- 

 ployed, whether for themselves or the community, 

 than in the production of the more substantial arti- 

 cles of food : in the mean time, the demand for the 

 luxury of poultry never fails to be satisfied to the 

 utmost extent, and a decline of price in that article 

 will be the natural consequence of a general decline 

 in the meat market. 



