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ther the Carfe of Gowrie ; for the calculation is formed from the returns on 

 a particular farm in that diftrid, though it Ihould be oblerved, that that 

 farm is not cultivated agreeable to the rotation above mentioned, conll- 

 derably more than one-fix.th of it being annually under wheat, fome part 

 of which is fovvn after peafe, or clover Hubble ; and therefore the crops 

 muft be fuppofed inferior to what might be expecHied, or what is really 

 reaped, from lands regularly fallowed and dunged, either on that or any 

 other farm in that corner of the county. 



AVERAGE PRICES by the Bufhel, at which Wheat, Barley, Oats,' 

 and Beans, were fold off a particular Farm in each of thefe Counties, 

 for the Years above mentioned. 



NORTHAMPTON-SHIRE. 



PERTH-SHIRE. 



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OBSERVATIONS. 



It appears that the price of oats is higher in Perthfliire than in Northamp- 

 tonlhire, but that all other kinds of grain, fell higher in the lad mentioned 

 county. That the price of oats fliould be higher in Scotland than in Eng- 

 land, will not be thought furprifing, when it is confidered, that there, the 

 great body of the inhabitants live principally on oat-meal, whereas in Eng- 

 land, the bread generally ufed is made of wheat flour. The difference in 

 the prices of the other fpecies of grain in favour of Northamptonlhire, may 

 be accounted for, by obferving, that Northamptonfliire is perhaps more 

 clofely inhabited than any other county in England, where no great cities, 

 or large manufadluring towns are fituated, and that therefore the farmers in 

 general find a market for their grain at home, or in the immediate neigh- 



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