pounds two ounces, which is a 
greater gain than in baking bread of 
wheat flour only. 
A cireumstance attending rice, 
which fenders it a great object, is 
the possibility of procuring it in 
almost any quantities ; for, not to 
mention the United States of Ame- 
rica, it is to be had surprisingly 
cheap from India. It is seldom 
higher, atCalcutta, than two’ sicca 
Tupees the bag of 168]lb; and for 
cargo rice 34 rupees; it has been 
bought in the districts, five mauns 
for the rupee, which is 400\b. for 
Qs. 4d. The average price at 
which it could. be bought in large 
quantities, is 5s. 3d per cwt. To 
this is to be added the freight to 
London in ships, Lascar ones of the 
country, 12s. per cwt.; in all, 
landed in England, 17s. 3d. per 
cwt. instead of 44s. the price at pre- 
sent sold for at London. Thus im- 
ported, it must be apparent to every 
one how much cheaper the bread 
would be. 
I have tried it, in the same pro- 
portion with barley, and it makes: 
good bread for labouring people, 
but heavy, like all mixtures of bar- 
ley, and the gain in baking not 
nearly equal to that by mixing with 
wheat. 
So excellent a sort of bread being 
thus attainable, itis to be hoped that 
its use will spread into every part of 
the kingdom, and that those per- 
sons, who assist their poor neigh- 
bours by don&tions cf bread, will 
adopt this mode of making it, since 
itisnot so much the price of the 
bread, as saving the consumption of 
wheat, which seems at present the 
object. 
Substance of Sir John Sinclair’s Ade 
dress to the Board of Agriculture, 
on Tuesday the 14th of July, 1795; 
%96) ANNUAL REGISTER, 1795. 
stating the Progress that had been 
madei n carrying on the Measures 
undertaken by the Board, for pro- 
moting the Improvement of ihe 
Country, during the second Sessions 
since its Establishment. 
Ye generous Britons venerate the 
lough ; 
—So with supctior boon may your rich 
soil, 
Exuberant Nature’s better blessings — 
pour 
Over every land, the naked nations 
clothe, _ 
And be th’ exhaustless granary of a 
world ! 
Tuompson’s Sprinc. 
HAT he could not think of 
their separating for the sum- _ 
mer, without laying before the board — 
according to the practice of last 
year, an #bstract of their proceeds — 
ings, at the conclusion of what ought — 
properly to be accounted their se 
cond session, only one meeting 
having been held in 1793, when the 
board was originally constituted. 
That nothing could give him 
greater satisfaction, than to observe 
the progress’ which the board was 
making towards completing the 
great measure which it had at first 
undertaken, namely, that of ascer- 
taining the present state of the agris 
culture of these kingdoms, and the 
means of its imprdvement. That 
not only the rough draught of the 
survey of cach county, with hardly 
any exceptions (and those would 
soon be supplied) had been printed, 
but that the reprinting of the re+ 
ports had also conmimenced, from 
which it would appear what pro- 
gress had been made in collecting 
additional information. The re- 
printed report of Lancashire, which 
was now ready for publication, 
would fully explain the plan accor- 
ding to which those reports were 
in 
