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construction of granaries, by a Hanoverian architect, called Dinglinger, which 

 merits attention. It is accompanied by an engraving. In the works of Du- 

 monceau, Duhamel, and Chateauvieux, there are descriptions of a ventilating 

 granary, which is much recommended ; and M. Descroizilles, aine, Jias lately 

 published a work at Paris, explaining a new mode of preserving grain, in what 

 he calls " conservatory towers," invented by M. Chenest, which has received 

 the approbation of the Royal Agricultural Society of Paris. 



213 Red oats, producing perhaps seven quarters per acre, will often yield 

 much less straw than Angus oats, which may produce only five quarters of 

 grain. 



214 In Middlesex, wheat is cut so close to the ground, as to add 7s. per 

 acre to the value of the straw. Report, p. 172. Near London, where the 

 wheat is bagged, the marketable straw, which yields one Winchester bushel of 

 wheat, averages about three truss, of 36 Ibs. each. The yield of wheat in all 

 JEngland, is supposed to average nearly 24 bushels ; which, multiplied by 

 three, produces 72 truss of straw, per English acre. One load of straw in the 

 London market is 56 truss, and that is the produce of half an acre ; therefore 

 an acre produces two such loads of marketable straw, and as each load weighs 

 11 cwt. 2 qrs. 8 lb., the two loads, or one acre of straw, weigh 23 hundred 

 weight of 1 12 Ibs. each, and 16 pounds. If to this should be added, for short 

 straw, chaff and stubble, nearly three hundred weight, the result will be 26 

 hundred weight per acre. Twenty-four bushels of wheat, of 60 Ibs. each, is 

 equal to 12 cwt. 3 qrs. 12 Ibs. per acre, of clean marketable corn. Add 

 the weight of the straw, &c. 26 cwt. to that of the corn, nearly 13 cwt. and 

 we have 59 cwt. as the whole crop. The variations for all England, are 

 from one-half to double these amounts, or from one ton to four. Communica- 

 tions by John Middleton, Esq. 



215 Dr Skene Keith remarks, that though barley has the least weight of 

 straw, it has a considerable proportion of chaff and light corn. 



216 In Flanders the weight and value of the different sorts of straw per 

 English acre, is estimated as follows : 



Crops. Quantity of Straw. Price. Total value. 



Rye, - 4000 lb. - one- fourth of a penny, .4 3 4 



Wheat, - 3000 lb. - one-fourth, - - 326 



Oats, - 3000 lb. - one-eighth, -'':"':-''' 1 11 3 



Barley, - 1500 lb. - one-eighth, -/'-' 015 7 



217 About Dunstable, Luton, and other places in the Chiltern range of 

 chalky hills, (where the whitest straw is produced,) very important profits are 

 derived, from the sale of the top joint of the straw of wheat, to persons who 

 come to the farmers' barns, to draw out, and cut off this part of the straw, 

 tying it into short bundles, which sell, by the pound, to the plaiters. 



218 Oxford Report, p. 153, 22i cwt. 



219 Middlesex Report, p. 176, note. L.7, 4s. per English acre. 



220 Communication from Dr Skene Keith. In any year in which fodder is 

 plentiful, little more than L.I can be got for an acre of straw ; but before the 

 introduction of the turnip husbandry, when fodder was scarce, and hay from 

 sown grasses unknown, from L.2 to L.3, was the price in Aberdeenshire. 



221 It is evident, that the MONEY VALUE of the straw, cannot be charged, ac- 

 cording to the prices specified in the text, to farmers in general, because most 

 of them are prohibited from selling or disposing of it, and it is essential to them 

 for preserving the fertility of their land. But in a national point of view, the 

 value of the straw is to be included among that of other agricultural produc- 

 tions. On this subject, Mr Holdich remarks, that all straw, hay, and vege- 

 tables, consumed by cattle, are to be estimated in the cattle only which come 



