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kiln-dried. Potatoes arc fcarce and dear, 43. per bufhel ; niany 

 are wanted for feed, and it is to be feared nnany will be wafted, 

 as the cultivators of this root are unfortunately too much in the 

 habit of ufing more than double the neceffary quantity. The 

 fets or eyes, judicioufly cut out, of from three to four facks, 

 are fufficient for an acre, and there will remain nearly two 

 thirds of the potatoes for boiling. This is a circumftance de- 

 manding attention at all times, and now in a tenfold degree. 



Fat cattle are fold at high prices, about 8s. per ftone of 

 14 hb. finking the offal. Very few are turned off really fat. 

 Lean cattle and fheep remain at moderate prices. The wedders 

 fattened upon turnips, now flocking into the markets, render 

 the price of mutton fomewhat lower than beef 5 the drop of 

 lambs appears rather fcanty and backward. 



Good horfes fell at high prices ; and all forts are more in 

 demand than for fome time paft, or than could have been ex- 

 pedied. March 24. 



ExtraB of a Letter from a Torkjlnre Farmery dated March 

 31. — I fhall endeavour to give you a flatemcnt of our prefent 

 markets, &c. ; but they vary fo much, that it is impofTible to 

 be accurate. Lafl market days, at Wakefield and Pontef2-a<ft, 

 prices were as follow : 



Wheat 40s. to 50s. per load, 



Beans 42s. to 50s. per ditto. 



Barley 60s. to 73 s. per quarter of 8 bufiiels, 



Oats 50s. to 60s. per ditto, 



Bread meal 4s. 2d. per ftone. 



Malt 109. to 123. 6d. per bufhel, 



Hay 61. to 81. per ton. 



Butcher meat jd. to 8d. per lib. 



Oilcake 12I. i2S. perton. 



Rape duft 28s. per quarter, > 



Turnips 2I. 2s. per waggon load. 



Wakefield market, on Wednefday, was well filled with fhecp, 

 and fuch as were fat fold well ; but a great many, fioin want 

 of food, are barely fit for killing. Beafts of good quality arc 

 fcarce, and many are flaughtered before they aie ia proper 

 condition. No fat lamb is yet prefented in the market ; but 

 the ewes are lambing faft, and promife well. Lean beafts, 

 in good order, fell well ; but the expence of the ftraw-yard, 

 which is paid at 23. 6d. per week, limits the demand. It is 

 much to be wifhed, that a good crop may be got this year, 

 which will fet all things to rights again ; for the Ijardlhips of 



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