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three fields adjoining, fiippofcd good land, pared and burnt nnd Town .In 

 good feafon, but without lime, alfo failed; feven aces of oats, managed the 

 fame way, turned out a fair crop; tlie bfuley failed in every inllauce; eight 

 acres of oats after turnip'?, which had a li^ht liming, yielded a very gre.^1: 

 crop. The turnips this year are thin but healthy, and of good (izt. 

 There is a great deal of wheat fown, all of whici), I believe, had a 

 good liming, but fome of the land was only fallowed without burni'i'; the 

 furface. The whole looks healthy at prefent ; but it did the fa:ne lail 

 year at this tit n:; and where it failed, it went off in April. Our farm- 

 ers, at prefent, feem at a Hand ; the high price of labour, and the low 

 rate of fnm produce, have damped all improvements here in that way ; 

 "but the increafe of iron furnaces and collieries, both In this county and 

 Monmouth, goes on to a great extent ; and numbers of men are rt-gu- 

 larly employed at high wages ; which, together with the conflant drain 

 for the army and navy, with the number of volunteers ralfed and often 

 called out, mull caufe farm labour to be much riegle<5led. 



* The current price for labourers is 2s. per day, and near a great town 

 2S. 6d. ; mafons and carpenters 2s. 6d. and 3s., but more about towns, 

 and at the iron and coal-works, or the new rail-roads, &c. &c. where 

 they work mollly by the piece. Labourers expe<ft to earn from 2Cb. to 

 24s. per week. Gentlemen here, at lead many of them, make a point- 

 ed rule, and fay, we will not give more to our labourers than 8s. and 

 and 9s. per week ; and they get old men, or fome that no others will 

 employ, for that money ; but a farmer muft have able hands, that can 

 do his work, and muft of courfc pay for them. I have always ftippof- 

 ed, for thefe fome years part, that the price of labour was higher with 

 us than in any other part diftant from London. In July 1802, I wn< 

 obliged to attend at Hereford aflizes, and being detained there fome 

 days, with feveral other farmers, our fpare time was employed in going 

 round the country to fee and hear if any thing new was to be learned, 

 and in converfing with farmers and labourers. We found the rate of 

 labour in that part 6s. and 7s. per week, when we were giving los. Jii 

 the weft of Wales, labour is lower than with us, and numbers of youn^ 

 men from Caermarthen and Pembrokelhires come here for work. ' 



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Lean cattle have a dull fale, and prices are rather lower than former- 

 ly. Beef in retail fells from 6d. to yd. per lib., and mutton from yd. 

 to 8d. The wool of this county, which is of the long, or combing 

 fort, brings at market from i2d. to I3^d. per lib.; and hay, whicti 

 with us is an abundant article, will not fetch more than 36, 6d. and 4s. 

 per 8 ftone, or i 1 2 lib. 



Our Corn markets are well fupplied ; and, as laft fcafon was uncom- 

 monly favourable for the fenny diftridls of this county, the general qua- 

 lities are fuperior to thofe of our common produce. Wheat fells from 

 48s. to 608. ; barley, 20s. to 24s. ; rye, 2Hs. to 31?. ; oats, 17s. to 

 20s. ; beans and peas, 32s. to 35s., all per quarter of 8 Winchefter bu- 

 ihels. Potatoes from 4d. to 6d, per peck. 



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