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AVERAGES OF PRICES. 



that occasion to eighths of a penny, a needless precision. But 

 I have sometimes, especially in the earlier years, continued the 

 practice in certain kinds of produce and in certain kinds of 

 labour. And as before, I have, when a fraction remained over 

 the lowest money unit retained in the product, added it when 

 it was in excess of half the divisor, omitted it when less than 

 half, and for the reason then given. I have not thought it 

 expedient to calculate values in grains of silver, partly because 

 the question whether pa/ments were or were not made in 

 weight does not seem to me to be settled, partly for the 

 humbler reason that the space required for such calculations is 

 disproportionately great for the value of the product. 



