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during the absence of duty, and with a comparatively 

 trifling- extent of culture, cannot possibly be made in 

 future with a duty, operating against the grower, and 

 an extending culture increasing the supply 



Suppose a produce of 15 cwt. to the acre, (more 

 has, I believe, in some instances, been obtained,) 

 which is a noble crop and rarely to be expected, and 

 this to sell at Is. 6d. per lb. or £8 8s. per cwt. (much 

 higher than the average price by the way,) you have 

 a gross receipt of £126, deducting from this the odd 

 £26 for expenses, there remains £100 for the crop ; 

 this is prodigious, and this and -more than this, has 

 been cleared, — but if a duty of Is. per It), two 

 thirds of the selhng price, be laid on, the remainder 

 will be reduced to £33 6s. 8d. ; and you cannot on 

 an average of years, expect above half this crop. — 

 Now, if you add to this consideration, the certainty 

 of having two acres of potatoes ; from the quantity 

 of manure required for one acre of tobacco, which 

 may be greatly injured by an unpropitious season, 

 and the secondary advantages arising from potatoes 

 if given to cattle, the result will be in favour of pota- 

 toes ; or suppose you sow vuingel wurzel or Swedish 

 turnips, on an acre sufficiently prepared and manured 

 to tobacco, (I am supposing a duty all this time on 

 the latter,) from which you would have forty or fifty 

 tons weight, would not this be incomparably better 

 to a farmer possessing stock to be fattened ? You 

 are also to place the value of the dung arising from 

 the application of mangel wurzel to cattle feeding, 

 into the scale, annd if this does not completely tui'n 

 it against tobacco, I am no longer Martin Doyle. If 

 it be ascertained in good time, that the now ex- 

 pected duty will not come into operation before the 

 next crop shall have come to market, or that its 

 amount be much less than I have supposed, you have 

 my leave, under the suitable circumstances, which I 

 shall yet mention, to give up some portion of your 

 land and manure to tobacco. 



