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I have dwelt the longer on the circumstances of 

 this particular farm, not because it may be considered 

 as showing the average increase on the usual scale of 

 farming, but because the accounts of the receipt and 

 expenditure, both in money and produce, are kept 

 with great regularity. In the generality of farms 

 which are under inferior management, the increase 

 would be found much below the rate which is stated 

 in the farm whose management I have described. If 

 I were to generalize the whole of Poland, except the 

 southern parts of the province of Sandomir and 

 Cracow, I should not estimate the produce of Grain 

 to be more, if so much, as two-thirds of that which 

 appeared to be raised on the estate in question. In 

 thus estimating, I should depend not only on my own 

 observation on the state of growing crops, and of 

 those which were being harvested, but on the opinion 

 of the persons best qualified to judge, by being in the 

 habit of looking at the amount of produce, upon a 

 large scale, and by being furnished with the best 

 means of judging the average of the whole. 



With that description of persons, including the 

 chiefs of several departments of the Government, the 

 prevailing opinion was, that the average produce of 

 Wheat was not more than fourteen bushels ; of Rye, 

 ten ; of Barley, fourteen ; of Oats and of Buck Wheat, 

 from eight to ten to the acre. Although the southern 

 parts of Sandomir and Cracow yielded rather more, 

 yet their Corn, being celebrated for its excellent 

 quality rather than for its much greater produce, and 

 extending to but a small proportion of the whole even 

 of those provinces, it was not calculated that it would 

 have the effect of raising the average of the whole 

 kingdom, in any sensible degree, above the rate here 

 stated. 



Upon this subject, I could have wished to have 

 been enabled to give statistical details, rather than my 

 own estimates, Or those of persons better acquainted, 



