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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, Book II, Chapter VI, Section V. (Quoting from a treatise on Flemish husbandry): Quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), Lemma "Agriculture" p. 18-19. | ||