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mtilating. He never will export when high 

 prices make it his interest, and the interest of 

 the public, that he should accumulate. He re- 

 gulates the one and the other in the way most 

 beneficial to himself and the public, when left 

 wholly free. It is as inexpedient to impede 

 or controul him in regard to the one, as in re- 

 gard to the other. 



5. The distillery and brewery afford a vent to 

 the home produce, which resembles all the 

 former, and, as far as it goes, is attended with 

 the very same good effects. In average years, 

 it takes out of the market a certain quantity of 

 corn beyond what is necessary for human sub- 

 sistence, thus encouraging increased produce, 

 and repressing population ; and when scarcity 

 occurs, it yields this surplus to be turned to 

 human food. As formerly hinted, too, this 

 disposal of superfluous produce, like the three 

 first mentioned, has an advantage over the 

 vent of foreign export, as affording a market 

 nearer, more certain, more under the eye of 

 the farmer, and less dependent on our relations 

 to other states, or their internal regulation 

 and prosperity. While always ready to give 

 up its consumption naturally when necessity 

 requires, and to yield the produce raised for 

 that consumption to the use of man, it is a 

 market equally ready to revive on the recur- 



