"540 Escpemes of Farm Culture in Norfolk. Aug. 



TURNIP CROP, 1^04. 



Three plougliings at 5s. - - - - - - - 



Muckinp, ten load /» acre, at 3s. />. load, and cartage Is. 



Filling and fpreading, Sj-d. ^. do. - - - - - - 



Seed and hoeing - - -.----- 



Rent, 15s. ; tith , 3s. jd. ; town charges, as. 



Average value of one acre sf turnips . - - . 



Deficiency or lofs on the turnips at this time 



For fncceeding barley crop, three ploiighlngs at js. 



Seed, three bufhcls at aos. f>. quarter _ « - - 



Rent, 15s. •, tithe, 3s. ; town charges, asi • 



Harvefting, at 7s. 6d. f. acre _ - - - - 



ThraHiing, 3^ quarters at is. 6d. />. quarter - - - 



Carting to market - - - - - 



Add ------ 



To 3 n qrs. cf barley, the average produce at the prcfent average price aos. 



Deficient L. i lo o 



* Thus the lofs on the barley crop at the prefent time appears to be 

 four times more than it was prior to the year 1790; whilll the price 

 of fat meat, and that of wheat, the next fucceeding crop of corn, to 

 both of which we ought to look for replacing the deficiency, are alfo 

 much reduced in value ; and the occupiers fubjeft at the fame time to 

 the increafed charges or taxes on horfes, and other aflcffed taxes, and 

 ninepence in the pound on their rack-rent as on income, which income, 

 I fear, in ver)- few inftances, as corn now fells, can have any real ex- 

 iftence, and will be found an oppreffive meafure, and the tax with 

 great difficulty raifed. To thefe ftatements may be added, the intereft 

 of, at leall, 5I. per acre, being the value of capital employed, as alfo 

 an allowance for the farmer's time, all which ought to be taken 

 into account. — It may not be improper to add, that as, at leafl, four 

 fifths of the lands, lately brought into cultivation by enclofure, 

 &c. Sec. are of that quality that they cannot be kept in a proper 

 flate of tillage, but at an extra expence to lands of fuperior quali- 

 ty, at the prefent price of corn, thefe muft, in great part, go out 

 of cultivation ; and every agriculturift well knows, that if laid down 

 to pafturage again, fifty years will not return them to as good an 

 herbage as they were taken from. Thus, for the firft two 01* three 

 years they may grow fomething, the next ten nothing ; next five 

 very little, and fo on ; by which a ceitain lofs to the community mull 

 be experienced, and oftentimes large fums of money again expend- 

 ,ed for the importation of corn, which I have not the leall hcfita- 

 ;tton of affirining might, and will be grown in the Uiiited Kingdom, 

 if the fpirit of agriculture is kept on by a fair remunerating price of 

 corn ; while tlie fmall extra price to the prefent price of corn, it muH 

 be recolI( dted, will revert back again to the confumer in every branch 

 of trade, who, I take the hberty of affcrting, dirpclly or indirc(f^ly, 

 /c^.TOorc or lefs the effc<fl of the opprefiiou the agricultural interefl 

 ruUains" at this moment. ' 



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