DECLINE OF LANDOWNING FARMERS 



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\Ve are fortunate in having the minutes of the evidence given 

 before the Select Committee on Agriculture, during this period, 



1 Tooke, History of Prices, Vol. I, p. 5. Also, The Report of the Select 

 Committee on Agriculture, for the year 1833, p. xii, from which the following 

 table is taken : 



THE PRICE OF WHEAT, PER QUARTER, FROM 1797 TO 1833 



