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No advance on pigs, and barley and wheat little difference from what it was in 

 1 790. The farmer tiiay get or not get by his plough-oxen that he buys, or may 

 breed four or five bullocks yearly, but on arable farms the plough-oxen are gene- 

 rally bought in, and sold again when the spring ploughing is over. 



On a grazing farm the advance on rent can be better doubled, as they are 

 at but litde expense for labour; but if no demand, such farms I have known 

 very unproductive; however, the war hath been in their favour. The breeding 

 farms have had some advantage for a few years past; but the last year and the 

 present time are much against them. On the whole, it is my firm opinion, that farms 

 are not really more worth for a term of 14 years to come, than they have been for 

 14 years past, nor even so much, and the tenantry must give up. 



DERBYSHIRE. 



Joseph Wilkes, Esq. 



I CAN for the present say no more than from 1790 to 1804 the advance of 

 wages, &c. is on the whole about one-third more, 



DORSETSHIRE. 



Mr. George Boswell. 



A GREAT deal of the wheat is mown, which was formerly reaped: this is found 

 advantageous to the farmer, for when the wheat is fit to be put into the band the 

 ■women are employed to do it, and a great many acres are secured in a few days. 

 The like observation may be made on the barley ; for, excepting mowing it, the 

 other part of the work is done by the women. 



DURHAM. 



Sir John Eden. 



Threshing machines in this country are much in use, and enable the farmers to 

 get their corn from the straw at a much cheaper rate. Their cost from £^0. to 

 j^ioo. and their powers seem to improve; I mean that the mechanic has improved 

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