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article of economy introduced in the country. The women fabricate the
hemp & flax into coarse clothing for their husbands & families
but little or none for sale. Stockings & finer clo linen might be
made; but it is likely that labour turned that way would be so
profitable as employed in the increase of agriculture.
The feeding of cattle may also be of great importance as there
are many towns within a transportable distance. The grains
from the Spirits and the oil cakes if there were mills to press the
hemp & flax seed would fatten the cattle. Profits made in the neighbourhood
by the fattening of cattle by the grains amount to 80 pr ct
in the year. There is another rivulet which runs into the small
river which is sufficient for the Spirit fabrick, a small one is now
erecting there for present use. The land is better than in the
estates about round about. Productions may be sent to Cherson and
thence all the world over by means of the Dneiper and to Riga
by way of the Dirina which is at what is reckoned here no great
distance. 70 versts I said 1,000 acres but I believe there are more and certainly
when these can be in turned to account more may be added.
Most part is already cultivated, but it is poorly manured. no manure
but dung ever employed and from on that account as well as on
account of the smallness of the seed sown more than from any
unfitness in the climate the grain is miserably small. 6 or 7 fold
is not a bad crop according to the present economy in these parts and
40 fold is a miracle. Snow is on the ground near 5 months of the year
You will see by the Chart that it is to the southward of Moscow.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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