432] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
to retain it. This increase of price 
would be very irconsiderable, ‘and 
would be much less than the value 
of the time, which would be 
thrown away by the purchaser 
Waiting in the market, or his loss 
by his ignorance of the quality of 
¢he commodity. 
What I have said respecting 
millers, appears to me to be most 
necessary to do away the presént 
opinion, that the high price of 
flour is in some degree owing to 
the millers or mealmen: but as a 
respectable. baronet has brought 
forward a bill on this subject, the 
resolutions contained in my letter 
respecting millers may be rendered 
unnecessary, except in drawing 
the attention of the country to the 
consideration of these subjects, 
which I hope will be the conse- 
quence of the attention which has 
been paid by the committee to in- 
quire into the causes of the high 
price of corn. 
A table, like the following, 
might regulate the prices of a mar- 
ket, as far as related to the quantity 
and weight. 
per bushel. per had, 
Ib. Ib. lebe psy ds 
“60 Or: 59 "—  \T2 10 50 
; Lcabegamehe palate Dialer ia Sali 
6 55 a 15 16 
EUS 5g) Seater 6 
2 — g1 = 1110 0 
Gogo are p06 
Thus 1/7. ros. per load difference 
would be made in the price, where 
28lb. per sack was the difierence 
in weight, which would be five 
half hundreds in a load of wheat, 
which is the exaét weight of a 
sack of flour, and which, the 
best wheat would produce more 
than the lightest, —1 have added 
this as a rule to settle any dispute, 
in case the wheat delivered under 
a particular sample, should prove 
lighter than the bushel or sack 
registered with the clerk of the 
market. ; 
I will only add, that from every 
conversation which | have had with 
farmers, mealmen and millers, since 
this subje¢t was brought forward, 
I am convinced that the use af 
weight, as the regulator of measure, 
will prevent fraud in dealings in 
corn, and wiil enable the magis. 
grates -or others, to regulate the 
price of bread by the average price 
of wheat or flour, instead of being 
fixed by the highest price af wheat, 
as it is at present. 
‘tyai? 
Extra& of a Letter from Mr. Davies, 
to William Mortor Pitt, Esq. 
Longleat, Nov. 22, 179%. 
YOUR question—‘* Whether it 
be possible or proper thar farmers, 
who seil their corn by sample, 
should be obliged to bring the 
whoie or a certain quantity ef ic to 
market ?\*—involves so many ob. 
jects of consideration, that I must 
beg your leave not only to give my 
Opinion, but to state my reasons at 
some length; the subject ts a 
serious one, and I trust you will 
aot think me more prolix than it 
requires. 
‘(he difficulties in reducing this 
plan to practice seems to be these : 
rst. [he infrequency of market 
towns in many parts of the king. 
dom, and the distance fyom .those 
towns to the places where corn is 
consumed. 
ad. ‘The increased. expence of 
carrying corn to markets; and 
then, in many instances, bringing 
it back again to be consumed near 
the spot whiere it grew. 
3d. The 
