THE 



FARMEPv'S MAGAZINE: 



MONDAY, 13. AUGUST i804. 

 (N° XIX.) 



BRANCH L 



ORIGINAL COiMMUNICATIONS. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER's MAGAZINE. 



Confide rations on Regulating the Value of Labour, 



Sir, 



A HE very extenfive circulation of your Magazine, and the 

 high character it has defervedly obtained, render the confe^ 

 quences of any erroneous principle, which may find a footing in 

 it, much more alarming, than if its circulation or its name had 

 attained lefs extent and celebrity. 



This confideration induces me to exprefs a total dlfappro- 

 bation of certain principles refpe(?^ing the price of labour, which 

 appeared in Number XVil. p. 43., quite oppofite to what I 

 have underftood to be a liberal fyitem of political economy, yet 

 fandioned by the authority, and fupported by the influence, of a 

 name which bears in itfclf the prefumption of fuperior infor- 

 mation ; and mull therefore have no fmall efFe6l in determining 

 the opinion of a very numerous clafs of your readers, who, en- 

 gaged in the pradlcal detail of an ufeful and honourable occu- 

 pation, without Icifure to iludy the abftracl principles of their 

 profeflion, allov/ themfelves to be dirc6led in this refpecfl by the 

 conclufions of thofe who, from their fituation in life, and op- 

 portunities of fludy and refleOiou, having more the means of 

 acquiring knowledge, are confidered as more able to decide upon 

 the fubjedl:. 1 allude to a letter from a very refpeO:able corref- 

 voi,. V. NO. 19. R pondent. 



