to debar himself of many enjoyments. The British farmer has
lessened the produce of grain, and consequently of meat; and the
nation has become dependent upon foreigners for meat, cheese, and
butter, as well as for bread.

This is hardly the place to discuss a question of agriculture, but
scientific farmers know that there is a rotation of crops,
[Footnote: The agricultural returns of the United Kingdom show that
50 and 1/2 per cent of the arable land was under pasture, 24 per
cent under grain, 12 per cent under green crops and bare fallow,
and 13 per cent under clover. The rotation would, therefore, be
somewhat in this fashion: Nearly one fourth of the land in tillage
is under a manured crop or fallow, one fourth under wheat, one
fourth under clover, and one fourth under barley, oats, etc., the
succession being, first year, the manured crop; next year, wheat;
third year, clover; fourth, barley or oats; and so on.] and that as
one is diminished the others lessen. The quantity under tillage is
a multiple of the area under grain. A diminution in corn is
followed by a decrease of the extent under turnips and under
clover; the former directly affects man, the latter the meat-
affording animals. A decrease in the breadth under tillage means an
addition to the pasture land, which in this climate only produces
meat during the warm portions of the year. I must, however, not
dwell upon this topic, but whatever leads to a diminution in the
labor applied to the land lessens the production of food, and DEAR
MEAT may only be the supplement to CHEAP CORN.

I shall probably be met with the hackneyed cry, The question is
entirely one of price. Each farmer and each landlord will ask
himself, Does it pay to grow grain? and in reply to any such