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Mr. Henry Harper. 



Manures in 1790, horse, cow, and batcher's dung, from 5s. to 6s. per ton; night 

 soil, coal ashes, and sweepings of streets, 25. to is. 6d. per ton. In 1804, horse, 

 cow, and butcher's dung, from los. to 12s. per ton; night soil, coal ashes, sweep- 

 ings of streets, 45. to 5$. per ton is now about the average price. In the spring of 

 the year 1796, horse, cow, and butcher's dung sold as high as 15s. and i6s. per ton ; 

 in the spring of the year 1800 and 1801 it again sold at 15J. and \6s. per ton. 



The person I allude to, who has signed his name to the above, is a respectable 

 dealer in Liverpool, both in corn and flour, by wholesale and retail. The prices at 

 the rate given in each month are for country wheat, bought from farmers by weight, 

 at 70 pounds per bushel ; which, the average price for each month throughout the 

 year, is 85. ^d, per bushel, or 53s. "Jyt^. per quarter, which is is. jd. and a 

 fraction dearer in the year 179O, than the present price of 1804. 



I can remember, when a boy, so long as forty-four years since, going with my 

 father to a neighbour's to buy some horned cattle, which were from two to three, 

 four, and five years old, which were then bought from two to three, four, and five 

 pounds per head, and under that price, but according to their being well made, size, 

 and bone ; I being then of years to notice which were handsome and well made 

 from those that were ill shaped. But at that time butter sold, in Liverpool market, 

 from ^jd. to ^-^d. the pound, of 18 ounces. My remark on this, from that time 

 to the present is, that as butter has either gradually or rapidly risen in price, in 

 the course of twelve months or less that cattle has done the same in proportion ; 

 and that as many pennies per pound as butter sold for at Liverpool market forty- 



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