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of eleven years of age.[ was informed,—. regulary dined

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and fupped upon them every day, and that the quantity

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in the kettle ferved them for both the. I immediate- ly weighed the potatoes in the kettle, and found that they 2- mounted to nine pounds Avoirdupois, and was informed that eight pounds of oat-meal ferved them for breakfaft, in pottage, a week. The fecond family I entered was compofed af three men, one woman, and fix healthy children, three of whom were botn at one birth: this family alfo dined and fupped upon potatoes; the quantity they ha d prepared to drefs for dinner ce thirteen pounds, an Ê ÏI was informed it required near four pounds oat-meal each day for their breakfaft. Af- ter examining the confumption of feveral families that had two meals of potatoes per day, I found, to my aftonifhment, thät about 22 libs. Avoirdupois raw potatoes, and$£ OZ. good oat-meal, when made into pottage, did aétually maintain, for one day, in good health and condition for labour, on an

each individual of a family, compoñfed of two parents

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and three children, as long as their ftock of potatoes lafted. Having thus afcertained the length which potatoes and oat- meal will go as food, when a vegetable diet only is ufed, I fhall proceed to calculate the guanium of population that the farm of 504 Englifh ftatute acres, fertile land, well cultivated, will maintain, under the following mode of cropping.

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