s74.
The context of this quotation is: “My work is intended chiefly for the benefit of cottagers, who must, of course, have some land; for, I propose to show, that a large part of the food of even a large family may be raised, without any diminution of the labourer’s earnings abroad, from forty rod, or a quarter of an acre, of ground”. William Cobbett (1821), Cottage Economy, pp 22–23.