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peculiar construction, retains the moisture, and 

 it decays. We cannot stack them like corn, as 

 pressure destroys the spines, and a free circulation 

 of air is required to dry them thoroughly ; and we 

 seek for barns, sheds, and shelter of any kind, 

 crowd the very bed-rooms of our cottages with 

 them in dripping seasons, and bask them in every 

 sunny gleam that breaks out : this is attended 

 with infinite trouble ; and as few farmers, who 

 have so many other concerns on their hands, like 

 to encounter it, they become the speculation of 

 the most opulent class of cottagers. When dry, 

 they are picked and sorted into bundles for sale, 

 ten thousand best and small middlings making a 

 pack ; nine thousand constitute the pack of kings. 

 If there be a stock on hand, and the season favour- 

 able, there is a sufficiency for the demand, and the 

 price low : if adverse weather ensue, the price be- 

 comes greatly advanced, and we have known them 

 in the course of a few months vary from 4>l. to 22/. 

 the pack ! but from 51. to 11. is perhaps the average 

 price of this article. This variation in value affords 

 the growers a subject for constant speculation a 

 source of rapid wealth to some, and injury to others 

 and we most emphatically call teazles a '* casualty 

 crop." Our manufacturers occasionally import 

 teazles from Holland and France, when the price 

 is high in England : this they can do when the home 

 price exceeds 8/. 



In letting teazle land, various agreements are 

 made, not necessary to mention in a note like this; 



