48 k A P E, 7. 



whence rape-feed is fent chiefly, I believe, 

 into the manufacturing part of the county; 

 where oil-mills abound. 



The PRICE ten to thirty pounds a laft, of 

 ten quarters. The produce of a middling crop, 

 four quarters an acre : five quarters an acre 

 liave not unfrequently been produced. 



GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. The fluctua- 

 tion of price which i"ape-feed is fubjedt to 

 l)cing in fome riieafure perhaps influenced by 

 the fuccefs of the Greenland fifhery, and the 

 hazard to which the crop is epofed ? ; render 

 it in a degree uncertain. 



FROSTS, in fpring, when rape is in blow, 

 or in the critical ftate oetween the blofTom- 

 ing and the formation of the pods, are its 

 greateft enemies. In the fpring of 1783 

 much mifchief was done by frofts in May. 

 One perfon had a piece of twenty acres almoft 

 deftrdyed by it. In the beginning of May 

 this crop piomifed eight or ten pounds an 

 sere : the foil rich, the crop on the ground 

 fc;ood, and the price above par. In the wane 

 of May the twenty acres were offered for 

 twemy pounds ! a lofs of 6ne hundred ant! 

 fifty t6 twahundred pounds in one article, a'nc$ 



perhaps in one night ! 



But 



