1803. Agricultural IntcUigC7ice — Scotia fuL 24^ 



Average Price of Corn per Quarter in Great Britain for the week 

 endin^^April 9th. 



ENGLAND. 



Letter from a Gentleman near Stafford, April 4, 



< The weather has lately been very mild, and we have enjoyed a fine 

 lambing feafon. From what 1 can learn, very few lambs have beea 

 loft ; and they promife, under a continuation of ihefe circumttances, to 

 be of excellent quality. The wheats of this county are in a very 

 thriving ftate ; and feed work of all kinds is far advanced. The graia 

 markets have been dull fince my laft ; and wheat has fold at 8s. 

 6d. ; barley, 3s. pd. ; oats, 2s. 9d. ; all per bufhcl of ^\ gallons. At 

 laft market, there was a trifling advance. 



* Notwithftanding the low price of corn, land is ftill on the advance; 

 and the moment a field is in the market, there is lure to be many com- 

 petitors. Arable land lets from 20s. to 40s. per acre ; but meadow, 

 and good grafs land, draw from Cos. to 63s. Beef and mutton keep up 

 in price, viz, from 7d. to 8d. per lib. ; bacon, Qd, ; Dorfet lambs, about 

 three months old, have currently brought 30s. each. * 



Letter from a Farmer in an extenfve Breeding Dif'liU, April i^th. 



* Owing to the great deficiency in the quantity and quality of the 

 fodder and other food during the late years of fcarcity, great numbers 

 of cattle died, and many were flaughtered lean, in ahnoll all parts of 

 the kingdom ; which, with the increafcd confumption of animal food, 

 in confequence of the fcarcity and high price of grain, undoubtedly 

 caufed that defalcation in the fupplies of live ftock, which has of late 



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