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 ¬husbandry, but were forced into production at an expense that your markets during war could only repay ; and the utmost exertion of unprotected proprietors can never, I fear, redeem them from the consequences of such an improvi- dent course — the State alone can save them, and the public loss will otherwise be ten-fold the amount of the greatest sacrifice which need be made to prevent returning barrenness from deso- lating your land. ¬" It is not Money that government could be asked for, but, as I have just said, the skilful ma- nagement of revenue, and an unremitting atten. tion in her legislature to the smaller springs of national ceconomy, which are not examined or thought of when the body politic is in a rude state of health, — the science of agriculture is by no means at its height; and in the almost miraculous advance of chemistry, new means may be found, from the concentration of known composts and the discovery of new, to lessen the cost of culture, and to increase its returns. — But here ¬again ¬