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pigeons in England ^\m\ Wales. These, to 

 speak moderately, will consiune, with what 

 the}" carry home to their young, one pint 

 of corn per pair daily, and which for one 

 hundred and forty days, being half the 

 period they are supposed to subsist upon 

 corn, amounts to one hundred and fifty- 

 seven miihons, live hundred thousand pints 

 of corn consumed annually, throughout 

 England and Wales, by these voracious and 

 insatiate vermin, for m no other light can 

 they be considered by the agriculturist. 

 The amount and value of this consumption, 

 when brought into the present price of 

 wheat, rye, barley, oats, beans, and pease, 

 and assuming that an equal quantity of each 

 corn is thu^ consumed, but which is far from 

 being the case, as wheat is not only the 

 most inviting, but by far the most exposed 

 to the ravages of these birds, both at seed 

 time, and preceding iiarvest, will stand 

 thus— 157,500,000 pints=4,92 1,875 Win- 

 Chester bushels, which, at 6s. per bushel, 

 the ])resent average price of the grain be- 

 fore enumerated, amounts to .^1,476556^2 



