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The capital pays 29 /. 11 s. per cent. 

 This profit is very confiderable ; but it 

 piuft not pafs without a few remarks. I 

 am fenlible that many of my readers will 

 treat this calculation with no fmall con- 

 tempt ; and the fentiment will refult from 

 the too common and vulgar idea, that 

 nothing that has not been can be. No fuch 

 farm as this exifts, fay fome ; but is that 

 any reafon that fuch an one never fhould 

 cxift ? The extent to which this culture is 

 carried in the preceding calculation, is a 

 mere matter of multiplication. The grand 

 point is, the fad of one acre of lucerne, and 

 C7ie acre of cabbages, yielding food fufficient 

 for fuch a number of cattle ; if that fad is 

 once eftablifhed, the proportions of whole 

 farms will follow of courfe. 



I here fuppofe an acre of cabbages to 

 winter-feed five cows, with the aflifi:ance 

 of ftraw. This fact I know not only from 

 intelligence, but experience. The ftraw, 

 I fhould remark, is not bought in fuch 

 quantities as abfolutely necelTary for the 

 cattle, but principally for littering the 

 cows, and raifing dung: Cows may be 

 wintered on cabbages alone r, but it is more 



advifeable 



