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*« wheat lays.’* He doubts, whether there are not 
more confumed in the diftrié he fpeaks of, than 
what grow in it. In many diftri&s of the kingdom 
this is a€tually the cafe, and the fupply arifes from 
importation. 
It is ftated, in Mr. Kenr’s Survey of Norfolk, 
that on an average of three years, in that. county 
only, the excefs of oats imported, over and above 
thofe exported, amounted yearly to no lefs than 
15,389 quarters. 
On due confideration of what has been written, 
it will, I think, appear, that oats and barley do not 
poflefs the proper requifites for regulating the value 
of all the different produ@tions, on two-thirds of the 
arable land throughout the kingdom. 
BUTTER. 
Mr. Davis has adopted this article as a regulator 
of the rents of tithe, onall the grafs land in the 
kingdom. He confiders butter as a ‘* commodity 
* of a conftant and invariable quality, and of daily, 
** regular, and indifpenfable confumption in quantity, 
** on the price of which every other produétion of 
** grafs land in a great meafure depends.” Other 
agricultural furveyors hold a different opinion. 
Mr. Turner, in his furvey of Glocefterfhire, ac- 
counts it an article not ftriétly neceffary; and Mr. 
* Survey of Wilts, page 46. 
BIsHTON, 
