l68 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



artificer, and little tradefman, as it has a tendency 

 to throw the corn into the channels of monopoly, 

 and I do not think a better thing could be done 

 for the community, than that of giving all poffible 

 encouragement to public fairs and markets j for, 

 among other good effefts that might refult from 

 them, I am of opinion, it would tend more than 

 any thing, to check the increafe of large farms, as 

 I have before ventured to obferve. 



As to the markets for other provifions, fuch as 

 poultry, butcher's meat, and vegetables, I do not 

 think any part of England can exceed that of 

 Norwich, nor are thofe of Lynn and Yarmouth 

 inferior, except as to fize — but of late, the prices 

 of all articles are very much increafed, even with- 

 out having any reference to the very late exorbi- 

 tant rife, but merely Mating the difference between 

 twenty years fmce and lafl year. 



Butter was then jd. a pint, of 20 oz. — lafl year 

 it was is. — cheefe is increafed from 3d. per lb. 

 to 6d. — poultry and eggs in the lame proportion — 

 pork and butcher's meat from 3d. per lb. to 5d — 

 meal from is. to is. 6d. per ftone, of 14 lb. — malt 

 from il. 12s. to * 2I. 8s. per quarter — vegetables 

 very reafonable, and in much greater abundance 

 than formerly — milk at 6d. a gallon, but very little 

 to be had — wild fowl plenty and reafonable, in hard 

 feafons. 



Fife, 



