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Sect. XVI. 9. 4 



OF 



SEEDS. 



467 



Now as pafturage requires fewer hands in the management of 



and 



fs 



d attention to condu(Sl 



o 



and 



produas in flefh, cheefe, butt 



take a higher comparative price 



market, and are articles of greater luxury, than the produds of arabl 

 land in corn, we may conclude, that pafturage will prevail 

 clofcd provinces 

 bers of m.ankind 



And as perhaps tenfold the num 



can be fupported by the corn produced on an hun- 

 dred acres of land, than on the animal food which can be raifed from 



it, 



folio 



that an 



fed province 



w 



fFord fuft 



much fmaller pop 



and 



the number of inhabitants of a 



try depends on the eafe, with which parents can procure fufte- 

 nance for their families, marriages will become fewer, and the people 

 decreafe, when an arable country is converted into pafturage. 



This laft circumftance appears already to operate in thefe realms, 

 fince about half a century ago much corn was exported annually, but 

 for feveral years laft paft great quantities of it have been annually im 

 ported for our own fuftenance ; ar 

 much cultivated, and muft therefore lefTen the confumption of g 



dth 



though potatoes 



arc 



wheat-flou 



and the ungraceful fafhion of covering the head with 



much diminiftied. Is this to be folely afcribed to the numerous 



clofures of arable lands 



part to the confumption of corn in th 



diftill 

 Or 



ry important confeq 



of any 



ntry producing a 



quantity of corn, than it confumes, and of thence exportin 



fifts in its cer- 



to foreign nations, even by means of a bounty, cor 

 tainty of preventing famine, the mofl dreadful of human calamities ; 

 as m years of fcarcity the ftream of exportation can be flopped, and 

 produce an ample fupply by its flagnation at home. ' 



Hence when a oreat part of any tra£l of country becomes employ- 



ed in 



pafturage in 



ftead of agriculture, the inhab 



' r 



become 



fumers of flefti inftead of confumers of grain, and will confe 



quently decreafe in number from the 



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fuftena 



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