USEFUL PROJECTS. 
price at which it would bear the 
additional expence of earriage ten 
niles farther; there is an end of 
the combination; and if ir was 
‘possibie the whole kingdom could 
combine, an importation from any 
country where it could be got 
cheaper would instantly knock it 
op. In fat, these very men, 
though dealing at all times under 
suspicions, and this year frequently 
in. danger of their lives, are the 
very hends that transfer the plenty 
of one country to relieve the dis- 
tresses of another; and though at 
former petiods, as well as now, 
they have, in times of dearth, been 
pointed at as the cause of it, they 
have to my knowledge this year 
mere than once saved whole towns 
from famine. In fat, times of 
scarcity are favourable to this set 
of men. [hey are then (against 
‘their will, I allow) particularly 
useful to all countries who do not 
grow corn enough for their con. 
sumption.—in times of plenty they 
cannot exist to answer their own 
purpose—in those times they are 
not wanted. 
But the great evil which we in 
this country feel, ard which our 
great corn markets rather encou. 
Tage than prevent, is the inequa- 
lity of measures by which corn, 
and particularly wheat, is sold; I 
do not speak of the various pro- 
‘vincial measures. It is immaterial 
to a country whether eight, vine, 
or twelve gallons are sold for a 
beshel, provided al! parties under- 
‘stand what the measure is. 
But in this country, in ali villages 
‘and small towns, where there is no 
pssize of ‘bread, 
‘his bread and his flour at: his 
own price, for which he always 
nit xes the highest market price of 
the baker sells 
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wheat; a few farmers, who happen 
to have extraordinary good wheat, 
make a point’ of adding two or 
three quarts to the meusure. This 
sack of corn, so much better and 
bigger than the average of the 
market, will frequently sell for 
one fifth more than inferior sam- 
ples of fair measure in the same 
markét, This high price, and 
which it is the interest of the 
buyer to give, forms a standard 
of price of bread and flour for the 
ensuing week.—No existing laws 
are adequate to the remedy of this 
evil, for as neither buyer or sellét 
complain, who is . te re-medasuré 
this corn, t though sold ina public 
market ? Besides, there is so much 
art. in measuring corn, that "two 
people may make several quarts 
difference in a sack, and yet both 
appear to measure fair.—If “anf 
remedy can be applied to this evil, 
it must be a compulsion to sell corn 
by weight ;—this is done by choice 
at Manchester and Liverpoo!, and 
in this country the buyer* always 
asks the weight, though he does not 
buy by it:—in fact, weight deter. 
mines the quality as weil as the 
nantity. If weight was adopted, 
the price would be ‘nearly equal, and 
it would then be possible to frame a 
fair assize table, which in my opi- 
nion is impossible to do from mea. 
sure, especially in such a year as 
this, when the difference in the price 
of good and bad wheat is full one 
: third. 
« Tcannot Kelp thinking, that if 
this meastre was (tricd a year, it 
would be found efficacious.—It 
would do one thing in an instant, 
which the legislature has not been 
able todo in a century— equa. 
- lize all the various measures in the 
kingdom.” 
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