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Montagu Burgoyne, Esq. 



I BEG leave to mention, that I believe that the prices which I have returned are 

 correct, as to the neighbourhood of Harlow, where I live, as I have kept regular 

 accounts of my farming disbursements for the last seventeen years; and I am sorry 

 to observe, that on the whole, I do not believe that there was ever a more unpro- 

 fitable year to the agriculturist in this part of the country, as to expense and profit. 

 The expense of labour is now very high ; but it is impossible to guess to what 

 price it will rise during the summer, for such is the scarcity of farm labourers, that 

 they may ask any price they please. This is the universal complaint of the fanners 

 in every part of the county of Essex; a complaint which, I fear, is moic likely to 

 increase than to be diminished. 



I have placed a very high price for the culture of an acre of turnips, because I 

 have allowed twenty loads of rotten dung per acre, which cannot be less than 45. 

 per load. I have fixed no price for the culture of an acre of wheat or barley, be- 

 cause it is not well possible to do it, with any degree of accuracy, without the whole 

 train of crops, which vary very much in different parts of the country ; but I can 

 venture to give my opinion, that in a moderate year, barley cannot be grown for 

 less than gOi. per quarter, and wheat for less than ^^3. 3*. per quarter, to pay the 

 grower for his labour, with a due return for his capital expended. The increase 

 of all expense which falls on the agriculturist since the year 1790 cannot be rec- 

 koned less than 30 per cent. 



GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 



Mr. Edward Turner. 



Thjre has been very little reduction in the price of labour since the return of 

 cheap times, nor will, most likely, till a settled peace makes hands plenty. Com 

 this year has been considerably lower than in 1790, and bacon meat as cheap; 

 some necessary articles of consumption to the labouring class as dear as ever; 

 shoes ios. 6d. a pair, instead of 6s. 6d. and soap, candles, salt, Sec. materially 

 advanced. 



The owners of tithe have not been idle in the period referred to : I might pos- 

 sibly have stated orre-liaffadvance without exceeding the truih. Among the many 



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