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the most beneficial eiFects. Your 

 committee recommend, therefore, 

 to eveiy housekeeper, to reduce the 

 quantity of bread used in his family 

 to one quartern loaf per week for 

 each person, which has been found> 

 by experiment, to be sufficient; and 

 likewise to abstain, as far as possible, 

 from the use of flour for all other 

 purposes. 



3. Your committee have been in- 

 formed that considerable inconve- 

 nience has been felt from millers 

 refusintj to grind the sorts of flour 

 necessary for making the bi'own 

 bread ; and they arc of opinion, 

 that, to remedy this inconvenience, 

 it may be expedient to subject mil- 

 lers to some new reguluti(ms. 



4. For reasons given in their for- 

 mer report, your committee cannot 

 recommend any compulsoiT law for 

 the use of only one sort of bread, 

 or tlie grinding of only one sort of 

 flour ; but strongl)' impressed with 

 the advantage that might result from 

 the use and consumption of bread 

 made of the whole meal, or of a 

 great proportion thereof, they think 

 proper to observe, that, by the man- 

 ner in which the assize is now set, 

 tlic profit of the baker is fiir more 

 considerable on the fine wheaten 

 bread than on that of a coarser quu- 

 Hty ; and j'our committee recom- 

 mend, therefore, that a new table 

 of assis^e should be framed to remedy 

 this inconvenience, and to promote 

 the use of coarser meal. 



r>. Your c(mimitlee have great 

 satisfaction in stating, that a con- 

 siderable supply of ri(;c and Indian 

 corn may be obtained from Ame- 

 rica; that, mixed in a certain pro- 

 portion with wlieat, they make 

 a most wholesome and nutritious 

 bread ; and that the most damawd 

 wheat may not onlv be used, hut 



rendered palatable by a mixture of 

 rice, which, by repeated experi- 

 ments, has been found to correct the 

 defects of it. This consideration, 

 that nui ch dam aged whea t and grain , 

 otherwise unscrvii-eable, may be 

 made into wholesome and palatable 

 bread, by being mixed with rice, 

 suggests the importance of extend- 

 ing to this latter article the SAiae 

 economy as that which is recom- 

 mended in the use of wheat, and of 

 reserving it as much as possible for 

 the above important purpose. 



Your committee, sensi1)le of the 

 important use of rice at the present 

 moment, are induced to recommend^ 

 upon a comparative view of the 

 prices of that article ih this country 

 and the other countries in Europe, 

 that a bounty should be given, on 

 the same principle as that with re- 

 spect to corn, on the importation of 

 rice, which should secure to the im- 

 porter the price of 1/. 15.v. per cwt; 

 if the market price should fall below 

 that sum. And your committee 

 likewise submit, whether it may not 

 be expedient that some bounty should 

 also be given, rm the same principle, 

 on the importation of Indian c(jrn. 



(). Your committee are of opi- 

 nion, that it is probable that c(m- 

 siderable re'lief may be afforded, if 

 proper enc(niragenient is given lo 

 the growth of potatoes and other 

 nutritive vegetables; and they re- 

 commend therefore to landlords, to 

 permit and encourage their tenants 

 tr) break up a limited quantity of 

 land, acccndingtotlie circumstances 

 of the estate, for the cultivation of 

 potatoes and pease. And your conir- 

 niittee suggest, that it may ])e ex- 

 pedient that provision shoiildbcmade 

 by law, for a given time, to enalde 

 lords of manors or individuals, or 

 parish officersonbehalfof till.' jiarish, 



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