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advocate for drilling white grain, no more than you. The very high 

 price of fi;ed during the Icnrcity, induced a number of farmers to ufe 

 the drill, in order to make Icfa do ; and, as their crops were j^ood, the 

 pradice has, I think, rather extended. At fome future period, I may 

 perhaps acquaint you with what obfervations 1 make upon the different 

 practices. 



* Fat cattle and flicep have declined in price, particularly the latter. 

 I believe much money has been loll by wintering them. Lean itock, 

 though yet very hii>-h, are much lower than in auiumn. It is faid there 

 is no demand for them near London, which always lowers the York- 

 fliire market. 



' Wheat is nearly at the fame price as when I wrote lait ; oats and 

 beans rather lower. B?.rley is faid to be down, but not much. The 

 potato oat has been much fown in England for two or three years. The 

 farmers, however, feem to be tired of it ; as, except upon very rich 

 land, it is not productive, and is faid to be more apt to be infedled with 

 fmut than the other forts. 1 had, however, 20 acres fown with them 

 lafl year, and they were very good. I have 1 1 acres this year. They 

 are as common with us as any other. We have alfo a new kind of 

 wheal ; but I do n(U know its proper name. It is provincially called 

 Hedge Wheats and is a very heavy, fine grain ; but is aifo faid to be 

 liable to fmut. 1 thick it would be better if you could introduce the 

 Wincheder meafure into your Magazine in any calculation that is made, 

 as moft of the different meafures, which I fuppofe are well known in 

 Scotland, are to us unintelligible. ' 



State of London Markets, Monday, April i8th. 



Forchn Grain. 



Br'ihJJj Gram. 

 Wheat, EfTex and Kent 5 5s. to 58s. 



Fine wnite 

 Black Wheat 

 Rye 

 Barley 

 Fine do. 

 Malt 



White Peas 

 Boilers 

 Grey Peas 

 Small Beans 

 Old do. 

 Oats, long feed 

 Short fmalls 

 Polands 

 Fine 



60s. to 6 IS. 

 46s. to 49s. 

 33s. to 35s. 

 22s. to 24s. 

 25s. 6d. 

 403. to 463. to 48s. 

 30s. to 32s. 

 40s. to 44s. 

 28s. to 30s. 

 30s. to 323. 



34s. 



i6s. to I 7s. 6d. 



i8s. to 2IS. 



i8s. to 21S. 

 22s. to 22s. 6d. 



Baltic Red Wheat 

 Friefland d.o, 

 Riga do. 



Dantzic and Zealand, 



white 

 Rye 



White Peas 

 Grey do. 

 Small Beans 

 Oats, feed 

 Do. brew 

 Do. Polands 



42s. to 523, 



^40s. to 42s. 



30s. to 36s. 



54s. to 58s. 

 30s. to 32s. 

 28s. to 30s. 

 26s. to 29s. 

 28s. to 30s. 

 I js. to 178. 



l8s. to 2IS. 



i8s. to 22s. 



All per quarter of 8 Winchefter 

 buihels. 



Tares - - 7s. per bulhel. 



Hay, 4I. 43. per load ; Straw, 45s. per ditto, lately as high as 56s., 

 •r about lod. per ftone Scotch weight j Red Clover feed, 743. to 929. ; 



Ditto, 



