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Obfei'vafions. The beft feafon for pwrehafing 



hogs at the Briftol market, is about the latter part 

 of O<ftober or beginning of November, when the 

 milk feafon is expired, and all the com fields 

 gleaned. Therefore, I could have bought hogs 

 of the fame fize as above, at the time mine were 

 offered for fale, for about eighteen Ihillings to not 

 exceeding nineteen {hillings. 



My hogs were only nine and ten months old 

 when put to fatten ; had they been full grown, 

 I am convinced they would have paid much more 

 than i4d. per bufhel for the potatoes they ate. 



The potatoes were entirely unfizeable for the 

 Briftol market, as being the fmalleft and largeft. 

 Moft of the latter fort were watery and hollow, 

 weighing from one pound and half to three pounds ; 

 worth (if fold in the country) from feven-pence 

 to not exceeding eight-pence per bufhel. 



The barley being ftained, maltfters and difl 

 tillers rcfufed to purchafe it; and the highcft price 

 oifcred to me for it was three {hillings per buihel, 

 for the purpofe of fattening hogs. 



I could have purchafed gurgians at two {hillings 

 and three-pence per bufliel, which I apprehend 

 would nearly, if not equally, have been as nutri- 

 tive 



