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venture bolder language) deferving every encou-, 

 ragement, even on foils hitherto thought too heavy 

 for them. 



Our prodigality in the number of horfes kept, 

 and the mode of keeping them, renders fome fub- 

 llitute for oats eflential. From the price oats muft 

 on that account ever bear, from the fuperior qua- 

 lity of their ftraw as winter food for cattle, and 

 from there being lefs delicacy required in the cul- 

 tivation of the foil for their produce, they are 

 rendered as valuable to the farmer as a crop of bar- 

 ley ; and confequently the export of the latter, even 

 when manufanured into malt, is impeded and im- 

 paired, by what, comparatively, ought to be re- ' 

 garded as an unprofitable grain. Let our export 

 of other grain be therefore what it will, a very 

 heavy dedudlion on this mojl natioml profit, muft 

 now be made by the importation of oats, or we muft 

 ftop this drain, by fubftituting them in cultivation 

 for barley at home. A defperate alternative ! 



In this part of Effex, on a whole year's fallow 

 after wheat, barley is generally fown; and by the 

 produce of at leaft one quarter more in quantity, 

 (on a medium five quarters per acre) and its fu- 

 perior quality, it is fuppofcd to pay for the omifTion 

 of any hoeing crop that might have preceded it. 



But 



