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6d.; if three pounds over, 12I. 3s. pd.; and If four 

 pounds over, 12I. 5s.; and fo in proportion for any 

 greater weight, and to make abatement in the fame 

 proportion for every pound deficient. 



Thus all Wheat would be nearly of the fame value 

 per load, and ordinary or bad Wheat would not be 

 bought fo much dearer than the bed; as the price 

 to be paid would be in proportion to the weight or 

 real value, though the price agreed on would be the 

 fame for the bad as for the good. 



This would do away the advantage arifmg to 

 Farmers, by making their faraples a little drier and 

 cleaner than the load is fent in ; but it would have a 

 tendency to induce them to make their Wheat clean- 

 er, for the fake of more weight and a better price, 

 neither would there be any inducement to make 

 fliort nieafure. 



This cuftom would foon become familiar to both 

 buyer and feller, and the price to be paid would be 

 afcertained in a moment, for every defcription of 

 Wheat, by the annexed Table. 



* I think the retail price of a gallon of Flour at the Mill ought 

 always to be at the rate of one penny in the pound of the price of the 

 load of Wheat. For inftance, when Wheat is 12I. per load, the 

 Flour fhould be fold for lad. per gallon; if 14I.— I4d.; and the fame 

 proportion for any greater or lefs price. Therefore the price of a 

 gallon and a quarter muft be five farthings, which makes the advance 

 to be five farthings to the pound of the price of the Wheat per load, 

 for every additional pound in the weight per fack, which is the ftsB- 

 daM on which this Table is founded. 



