all STATISTICAL SUftVEY 



The price of fheep has alfo increafed in proportion; 

 the fmall mountain fheep, from ten to fourteen pounds 

 per quarter, which were fold from eight to ten pounds 

 per fcore lean, are now near itouble that price. Lean 

 hogs are a more fluctuating flock, their price depending 

 upon the price of provifiorts, from the nature of their 

 food. This year, 1801, they are remarkably dear, 

 from two caufes, firft, the fcarcity of the animals, the 

 two fcarce years having operated againft rearing them ; 

 and fecondly, the cheapnefs of food having caufed an 

 unprecedented demand, as well as the high rate of 

 pork for exportation. 



The rife and fall in the price of grain, from the year 

 1798 until the prefent year, has been, I believe, for fo 

 fliort a fpace of time, unprecedented j oats and barley 

 in that year fold from five to fix fhillings per hundred 

 weight of eight flone; in 1799 and 1800 they fold for 

 four times that fum; and this year they are nearly as 

 low, efpecially oats, as they were in 1798. Wheat 

 rofe in proportion to other grain, but it has not as yet 

 fallen fo low. In no article of provifion has the fluc- 

 tuation of price been fo great as in potatoes; they arc 

 and have been at one feventh part of the price, at which 

 they were fold fix months ago. There is one advan- 

 tage attending a good crop of potatoes, they muft be 

 fold within the year, as the art of keeping them longer 

 has not yet been, found out; when they are in plenty, 



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