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Show VALUE OF AN ACRE. An acre of wheat will sustain three and a half individuals for a year; and acre of potatoes, ten persons. In Ireland the introduction of the potato has been followed by a decline of every Irish industry excepting agriculture. The small amount of labor required for obtaining sustenance from the potato is taken as the measure of necessary labor, and the time gained is not profitably spent in developing other industries, but is apt to be passed in idleness. It is so the world over, where the earth yields of its abundance almost without toil.-N. E. Farmer. |