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pe LETT. IL. of which the above quantities would afford to each individual fron for daily confumption to Of animal food=- 2:* 4 OZ. qu f Bread Wheaten 1 Ib.‘oz.| pal 1 Ditto Oaten us Of vegetable food d|: 4 F2 Ib.: oz. du } Oat-meal in Pottage 32 4 L Potatoes 10 J| acr con ñ And to maintain the inhabitants of Great Britain, comput-| acre | ing the number at nine millions, and each individual to con-| sh fume daily, on an average, the quantity of animal and vegetable| ril | food mentioned above, there would be occafon for 11,703,709 tin Ur acres of very fertile land, in a high ftate of cultivation; of cre which it would require fift 3:212,318 acres for fattening animal food, producing wil ÿ nearly 18 ftones per acre. 91,780— for potatoes. 1,052,050— for barley. oth 1,652,050— for clover hay. kil 1,052,050— for wheat. | 1,652,050— for peafe and beans,|: L 1,062,050-:—‘“IOr oats. di 220,451— for garden ground. 11,703,709 total acres. From the above ftatement it appears, that it would require: th 3»212,318 fertile acres, to afford four ounces of animal food be ;« à RS: ee nos; üty * The daily confumption of each individual in Paris, is pretty accurately afcertain- ed from the tax on cattle paid at the Barriers, to be about 54 0z.; in London it is to|

probably more than double.