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The capital pays ^^ L S s, per cent, 

 which profit being very confidcrable, and 

 arifing from culture not common, requires 

 a few words in explanation. I have ex- 

 plained fimilar matters more than once; 

 but I feel fo many cavilling objections 

 againft fuch calculations, from thofe who 

 'un/i not read with the fame view that the 

 author wrote, that fome facrifices muft be 

 made to prejudiced and narrow minds. 



I once more repeat, that the grand point 

 in fuch eftimates is the produd of one 

 acre of a vegetable ; for, if that is upon a 

 medium ftated not beyond the truth, the 

 extenfion of it to 5 or 6000 is little more 

 than a matter of multiplication, fome points 

 of confiftency (not exadly proportioned) 

 excepted. Cabbages and lucerne have been 

 found of incomparable ufe in feeding cows, 

 and more peculiarly adapted to that ufe 

 than moll other vegetables ; but it does not 

 therefore follow, that they will do for no 

 other purpofe ; that they will fat beafts ex- 

 cellently, (particularly cabbages) has been 

 proved by many experiments ; and there 

 can be no doubt of their anfwering incom- 

 parably in rearing young cattle : In a 

 U 3 word. 



