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in my family, is baked in a common ten-plate stove. I do not 
usually meet with better bread. I suspect the wheat of slaty up- 
land, is heaviest and sweetest.' 
How much Land will sufifily a man with necessary Foyd. 
I suppose a labouring man, sufficiently fed. Such a man will 
consume food of whatever kind it be, that will be equal in amount 
to one pound and a half of bread, one pound of meat, and half a pint 
of whiskey, per day. To which ought to be added, an allowance 
for fuel, pepper, salt, and a moderate proportion of vegetables. 
His dress will form another item : his habitation another. 
One pound and a half of bread per day, will amount to 547 1-2 lb. 
of bread per year. At 13 lb. of bread to 10 lb. of flour, this will 
require 420 lb. of flour. If according to the experiment above 
related 6 1 5 pound of wheat will produce 5 1 4 lb, of flour, then 420 lb> 
of flour, will require 500 lb. of wheat. This at 60 pound to the 
bushel, will amount to eight bushels and one-third per annum. 
Allowing a little for indispensible loss and waste, this will be eight 
bushels and a half. In England the calculation is eight bushels 
annually, as the consumption of man, woman and child : and is near 
the truth. In this country we live more fully and less carefully. 
I do not consider the average produce of an acre of wheat in 
the county of Cumberland, in Pennsylvania, which is a rich county 
of land, as more than 18 bushels per acre. The average produce 
of all England, is not less than 22 bushels of wheat per acre, when 
wheat is put in as a crop. 
Since I have been at Carlisle, when flour has been at six dob 
lars the barrel of 196 lb. net weight, wheat has been at g 1 25 cents 
per bushel : butcher’s meat six cents per pound : and whiskey 
the quarter cask, at sixty cents per gallon. 
% 
cents. 
The grain required for one man per annum \ 
l 10 
62 1-2 
then will be 8 1-2 bushels at g 1 25 cents < 
Meat, 365 lb. at 6 cents - 
21 
90 
Whiskey 23 gallons, or allowing 2 gallons ] 
S “ 
00 
extra for harvest time 25 gallons < 
47 
52 1-2 
Fuel, vegetables, pepper, salt, may fairly be ] 
> 7 
47 1-2 
considered as at least * 
£ 
g 55 
00 
It appears, that an acre of ground cultivated in wheat at 18 
bushels per acre will yield 22 1-2 dollars in the market. But all 
the other articles are equally the produce of the soil Hence if 
