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This equality, however, between the rent and profit of grass and

those of corn; of the land of which the immediate produce is food

for cattle, and of that of which the immediate produce is food

for men, must be understood to take place only through the

greater part of the improved lands of a great country. In some

particular local situations it is quite otherwise, and the rent

and profit of grass are much superior to what can be made by

corn.

Thus, in the neighbourhood of a great town, the demand for milk,

and for forage to horses, frequently contribute, together with

the high price of butcher's meat, to raise the value of grass

above what may be called its natural proportion to that of corn.

This local advantage, it is evident, cannot be communicated to

the lands at a distance.