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But where there is no local advantage of this kind, the rent and

profit of corn, or whatever else is the common vegetable food of

the people, must naturally regulate upon the land which is fit

for producing it, the rent and profit of pasture.

The use of the artificial grasses, of turnips, carrots, cabbages,

and the other expedients which have been fallen upon to make an

equal quantity of land feed a greater number of cattle than when

in natural grass, should somewhat reduce, it might be expected,

the superiority which, in an improved country, the price of

butcher's meat naturally has over that of bread. It seems

accordingly to have done so; and there is some reason for

believing that, at least in the London market, the price of

butcher's meat, in proportion to the price of bread, is a good

deal lower in the present times than it was in the beginning of

the last century.