404 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



a sort of nev/ creation to the public; 

 for, as it is a fact not to be contro- 

 verted, that the reduced number of 

 acres in the park, from their im- 

 proved state, support as many deer 

 and other cattle as the whole did 

 before, the produce obtained from 

 the farms is all clear gain ; and as 

 the crop of wheat and rye from the 

 140 acres sown, upon the most mo- 

 derate calculation, may be set at 

 3,360 bushels, and allowing six 

 bushels to a human mouth, this 

 gives a yearly provision in bread for 

 560 people; to say nothing of the 

 fattening oft' of 40 oxen, the breed of 

 800 sheep, and the growth of at 

 least 5000 bushels of oats and 

 beans; all of which it must be 

 observed, goes in aid of the public 

 market, as the work is done by 

 oxen entirely. 



As more experiments are in fu- 

 ture made, I may perhaps trouble 

 the society with an account of them, 

 as I am persuaded they cannot be 

 registered any where else, to give 

 them the credit, and to excite the 



imitation I flatter myself they may 

 deserve: but for the present, I shall 

 close my observations upon his ma- 

 jesty's farms with a description of 

 his mill, which I consider a« the most 

 benevolent thing that can be done 

 for the poor, and which I most 

 earnestly recommend to all gentle- 

 men of landed property, who have 

 like means of doing it. A small 

 over-shot mill is erected, and worked 

 by the waste water from the lake 

 below the lodge, where a sufficiency 

 of com, two-thirds wheat and one- 

 third rye, is ground, dressed, and 

 given to all the labourers, at sixteen 

 pence per stone of fourteen pounds, 

 in quantities suitable to the size of 

 their families which is the first of all 

 comforts to them, and a saving of at 

 least twenty per cent from what it 

 would cost them to buy it from the 

 mealmen or shopkeepers. 

 I am, sir. 



Your obedient humble servant, 

 Nathaniel Kent. 



Craig's Court, 



Oct. 30, 1798. 



