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Had this gentleman profcflionally ftudied the 

 oeconomical Hate of Agriculture in thefe our 

 countries, he could not have pointed out more 

 di redly an evil which has long militated againft 

 the general intereft of Great-Britain; I mean that 

 of giving encouragement to the planting of more 

 wheat than could be difpofed of, without laying 

 a heavy tax upon the people at large; and not 

 only at a price too by which the community have 

 been great fufterers, but greatly in many inftances 

 againft the intereft of tiie farmers themfelves, 

 who have been induced to depart from their ufual 

 routine of crops, to plant wheat in lands not 

 proper for that grain, and to neglect thofe which 

 it would have borne with great advantage; by 

 which both their own intereft, and that of the 

 publick, have been greatly injured; for it is a cer- 

 tain fact, that in fome years, when 200,oool. have 

 been paid for bounties, we have been obliged to 

 import oats to the amount of 500,0001. amount- 

 ing together to 700,000!. A fum confiderably 

 above half what the wheat was fold for, though 

 it actually flood the grower in above three times 

 the money ! 



It feems to have efcaped the notice of all the 

 writers on the fubjecl:, that whatever article o'f 

 commerce is exported at a price below what it 



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