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From this caufe agriculture, in temperate climates, will be car- ried to the greateft perfection in thofe countries where the inha- bitants add a certain portion of animal to their vegetable food. But there is a certain proportion from which, if, in the pro-

orefs of luxury, they deviate, by increafing the quantity of a animal food, they will certainly feel the want of bread corn, which appears to be one of the principal caufes that, of late years, there is an evident deficiency in the growth of corn in Britain, or rather in England, to fupply the inhabi- tants; and that we are every year becoming more and more dependent on foreign nations for our daily fupport, in place of being able, as formerly, to fpare a large furplus quantity

annually for exportation.

In order ftill farther to elucidate this important object, and to fhow, in the cleareft manner, the effect of an increafed con- famption of animal food, in diminifhing the quantity of corn raifed in Britain, I fhall fketch out a{cheme of cultivation

fuited more nearly to the average confumption and population

of the country.

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