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Prices of Grain, &c. at our Market this day. 



Wheat ics. to 14s.; maflin los. to 13s. ; beans los. 6d. ; barley 

 6s. 3d. to 6s. gd. ; oats 4s. to 5s. 3d. ; potatoes 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; all 



per Winchfciler buihel. Butter 60s. to 63s. per firkin of 56 lib. j 

 beef 5d. and 6d. ; mutton 6id. ; lamb 6d. ; veal y^d. ; frerti butter 



1 yd. per lb. of 2 i ounces. 



Extras of a Letter from London, OHoler 10. 



The crops of grain in the vicinity of this city, are in general very 

 middling. Wheat on the Itrong clays of Middlefex is very light, and 

 will not average above 12 bufliels per acre. Beans are good, but the 

 produce not yet fufficiently afcertained. In Hertfordfhire, \\\t 

 wheats are fine in quality, and the produce great. Barley is alfo a 

 good crop ; from iix to eight quarters per acre being produced in 

 feveral places. In EiTex and Surry, a confiderable part of the crop 

 was out when the rain fet in ; and much of the wheat is fprouted, 

 even of what was then uncut. The white wheats were moft af- 

 fefted ; the red being in few inftances hurt, except where it was 

 lying upon the ground. 



We have hitherto received but a fhort fupply of new grain, and 

 prices have been advancing ever lince the middle of Augud. Fine 

 Englifh wheat fells at 120s. and 126s. ; barley 70s. to 76s. ; oats 

 45s. to 46s. ; beans 50s. to 56s. ; old ditto 63s. ; hog peas 54s. ; 

 boiling ditto 96s. ; fplit ditto 120s. to 126s. ; all per quarter of 

 eight Wincheiler bufliels. 



The aveiage weight of wheat is about 59 hb. per bufliel ; barley 

 50 lib. ; oats 40 lib. ; beans 56 lib. The millers fay, the wheats 

 do not yield fo much flour, by 28 lib. in the quarter, as in former 

 feafons. Probably this may be owing to the great part of what has 

 as yet appeared in Marklane being of inferior quality ; as farmers 

 naturally bring out at firll that which is moft hkely to lofe by keep- 

 ing. The new oats are fuperior to any fcen here for a long time ; 

 but we have hitherto had a fcanty fupply ; and good old ones are 

 difficult to be got. We have had no arrivals from abroad, of con- 

 fequehce, for a month pail. 



Smithlk-ld market has been lately well fupplied. Potatoes are 

 confidered as a middling crop, prices from 7s. to 12s. per cwt. : 

 hay 61. to 61. 15s. ; clover ditto at 7}. per load ; ftraw about is. ad. 

 per truls. 



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