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gulated, as not to be opened for fale, of any particular kind of grain, 

 until it fliould have rifen in the markets adjoining, to a certain ave- 

 rage price. What the buying and felling prices, for each fpecies of 

 grain, ought to be, I (hall not attempt to afcertain, in this place. 



Such an inftitution would be of the utmod utility, to the manufac- 

 turer, by fecuring for him an unfailing fupply of bread, at a reafon- 

 ablc rate; and it would prove a great encouragement to agriculture, 

 by fecuring to the hufbandman, in times of great abundance, a regu- 

 lar home market for the produce, much more certain than the foreign 

 demand. The late large exports of grain, from this country, are not 

 to be depended on, as what will prove permanent ; they proceeded 

 from temporary caufes, affefting other parts of Europe ; when thefe caufes 

 no longer operate, the great demand for the grain of Ireland may ceafe ; 

 yet, our farmers have fpeculated on its continuance ; and are likely to 

 fuffer difappointments, which may difcourage the agriculture of a future 

 feafon. Were public granaries eftabliflied, this never could be the cafe ; 

 the leannefs of one year, would eat up the fuperfluous fatnefs of ano- 

 ther ; the market would be regular, and keep the demand, and price 

 of corn, nearly at one reafonable and uniform level. 



The expediency of eftablifliing granaries has been felt, in mofl coun- 

 tries, ancient and modern. By repofitories properly conftrufted, grain, 

 may be preferved, for a long fpace of time, as appears in the fuc- 

 cefsful practice of America. Thus, the fuperabundance of one year 

 balances the fterility of another ; and, fliould the accumulation of grain 

 greatly exceed the prefent confumption, or probable wants of the coun- 

 try, a vent may eafily be found, in fome foreign market. 



There is another point of view, in which, the encouragement of 

 agriculture, and fifheries, is of great importance, to the manufailures 

 of a country ; and mufl be confidered, as affording them a bounty. — 

 I mean, that the encreafe of thefe, by encreafing the opulence of the 

 labouring claffes, encreafes their confumption, in the fame ratio. In 

 proportion, as the peafantry of a country become wealthy, their arti- 

 ficial wants will encreafe j they will be better cloathed, and lodged, their 



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