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An inquiry into the Corn laws and Corn trade of Great Britain and their influence on the prosperity of the Kingdom / Dirom, Alexander. Added a supplement by William Mackie bringing down the consideration of the subject to the present Time, investigating the cause of the present scarcity ...
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1 the attention of a careful and foftering parent. Ou ture ought therefore to be guarded by the wifeft laws, and the ftricteft execution of them, as the only certain means of

employing the greateit number of people, and confequently

of increafing our population; and it is the better entitled to

this attention, that the farmer and the landhold.

proportion of all taxes impofed, for promoting and proteéting

the file of our other manufactures, both at home and abroad,

as well as for the growth of corn at home.

Ït is not eafy to afcertain, with certainty; the number of people employed in the raifing, m: anufa@uring, tranfporting,

and fale of corn; but it may be computed with a great degree

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of probability.

It is imagined that a farm, from which 100 quarters Of

orain, of the ordinary produ@tion of the county in which it

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is fituated, can be fold yearly,(after maïntaining the farmer s family, fupporting his cattle,&c. and fowing the grounc i for

another crop}, will employ, at an average, 12 Rae old and young.

It is fuppofed that the farmers family confifts of himfelf, his wife, and three children at a medium; that he acts as overfeer, that his wife manages the dairy, and that they employ,

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