CORN LAWS. 



CORN MOTH. 



elsewhere out of Europe, are charged the fol- 

 lowing rates of duty : 



Wheat. Whenever the average price, made according to 



law, shall be 

 Under 55s. for every s. d. I 



quarter, the duty | 56s. and under 57s. 



per qt. shall be 50 57s. and under 58s. 



5s. and under 56s. 4 | 58s. and upwards, 



Barley. Whenever the average price of barley, made 



up according to law, shall be 

 Under 28s. per quar- s. d. I- 



ter, the duly per qt. I 29s. and under 30s. 



shall be 2 6 I 30s. and under 31s. 



28s. and under 29s. 2 I 31s. and upwards, 



Oats. Whenever the average price of oats, made up 

 according to law, shall be 



Under 22s. for every s. d. \ t. d. 



quarter, the duty 22s. and under 23s. 1 6 



per qt. shall be 2 | 23s. and upwards, 6 



Rye, Peas, and Beans. Whenever the average price of 



these articles shall be, 

 Under 30s. for every *. d. I 



I 32s. and under 33s. 

 33s. and under 34s. 



quarter, the duty 



per qt. shall be 



30s. and under 31s. 2 6 I 34s. and upwards, 



31s. and under 32s. 2 I 



s. d. 



1 6 



1 



6 



Wheat-meal and Flour. For every barrel, being 196 lb. 



a duty equal to that payable on 38} gallons of wheat. 

 Oatmeal. 18l Ibs. pays a duty equal to that charged on 



a quarter of oats. 

 Maize or Indian Corn, Buckwheat, Bear or Bifg, pay 



a duty equal per quarter to that charged per qr. on a 



quarter of barley. 



AVERAGE PRICES OF WHEAT FROM 1670. 



The Mean of two half-yearly Prices ( Winchester 

 measure'), from the Register kept in the Hooks of 

 Eton College. 



The average Prices as published by the Receiver of 

 Com Returns from 1771 to 1840. 



(Thornton on the Corn Laws ; Par/. Papers; Sta- 

 tutes at large.') 



By an act of Congress, approved in August, 

 1842, the duties payable on grain, &c., imported 

 into the United States, are as follows : 



On wheat, 25 cents per bushel ; barley, 20 

 cents; rye, 15 cents; oats, 10 -cents ; Indian 

 corn or maize, 10 cents ; wheat flour, 70 cents 

 per 112 Ibs.; Indian meal, 25 cents per 112 

 Ibs.; starch, 2 cents per. lb.; pearl, or hulled 

 barley, 2 cents per lb.; (potatoes, 10 cents per 

 bushel.) 



CORN MARYGOLD (Chrysanthemum sege- 

 fum). In Scotland, this is called yellow gowans, 

 quills, gools; in Kent, England, yellow bottle; in 

 Norfolk, budland; midland counties, golds, goulds, 

 or gowls,- north of England, gowlans, goldens, 

 gules. Linnaeus says there is a law in Denmark 

 which obliges the farmers to extirpate this 

 weed. He recommends the land to be manured 

 in autumn, summer-fallowed, and harrowed in 

 about five days after sowing. Martyn says it 

 can only be eradicated by hand before the 

 seeds ripen. It is abundant in grain and turnip 

 fields, with its blue-green leaves, and broad, 

 brilliant, yellow flowers. The stalks are 

 round, stiff, and branched, growing two feet 

 high. The leaves stand irregularly, and they 

 are deeply indented at the sides, besides being 

 long and very broad, smallest at their base, and 

 growing broader as they advance to the end. 

 The root is tapering and fibrous. (Smith's Eng. 

 Flor. vol. iii. p. 450.) See Ox-ErE DAIST. 



CORN MOTH (Tinea granella). Among the 

 insects most injurious in their attacks on grain, 

 when laid up in magazines, is the larva of this 

 small moth (the mottled woollen ^noth of Ha- 

 worth), the caterpillar of which is also called 

 in England the white corn worm. The perfect 

 moth measures, from the head to the tips of the 

 wings, six or seven lines. The insect appears 

 in that country as a moth in May, June, and 

 July. It frequents granaries and other build- 

 ings where grain is stored, sits at resfin the 

 day-time, and only flies about at night. It is iu 

 the summer months, from May to August, and 

 sometimes in September, that the larvae devour 

 the different sorts of grain ; and they attack rye, 

 oats, and barley, with the same zest as wheat. 

 From September to May the larva is sought 

 for in vain in the corn-heaps; it has retired 

 into the cracks and fissures of the floor and 

 walls, and moreover has concealed itself in its 

 cocoon. It does not reappear till April or May, 

 and then in a very different form ; namely, as 

 a moth, which flutters about the heaps of store- 

 corn, and deposits upon them the invisible 

 germ of future destruction. After a few days 



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