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than the fuperiority of hoed to unhoed 

 crops; but the above general average fccms 

 totally to contradict it ; we muff, therefore, 

 examine the point minutely, and enquire 

 into the reafon of fuch a feeming paradox. 

 The prices of all commodities depend 

 upon the quantity to be fold ; if turneps 

 are fcarcer in one county than in another, 

 with an equality of cattle in each, undoubt- 

 edly they will be deareit. where fcarceft : 

 this is manifeftly the cafe in question : the 

 countries in which hoeing is fully efla- 

 blifhed, are confequently thofe in which 

 the culture is the oldeit. and moft common ; 

 to one acre of turneps in any county that 

 does not hoe, there certainly are forty in 

 another that does : the exiflence of fuch 

 an improvement fpeaks fufficiently this fact. 

 From hence it remits, that turneps in the 

 countries that do not hoe, mufl infallibly 

 be dearer than in thofe which do bellow 

 that operation on them : This is clear 

 enough from mere reafoning ; but faBs 

 mould, in fuch works as this, be the guide, 

 whenever it is poflible to gain them. I 

 mall, therefore, ftrike a line acrofs the 

 kingdom, and form two averages, one for 

 the North of England, the other for the 

 South ; the firft in general does not hoe, 

 and the other does : We mail from thence 

 find, that turneps themfelves, whether 

 hoed or not, are much dearer in one divi- 

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