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four years since, that the average price of a good fair calving cow sold for so many 

 pounds, which is the case at this present time. From the years 1795 and 1796, 

 the average price of a good fair calving cow has been from £12. to £1%. although, 

 forty-four years since, there were what I call prime cows that sold at;^3. znd £^. per 

 head above the average price, as well as now, when a prime cow will sell for £"30. 

 My remark on the rise of butter forty-four years since to the present time is, that 

 the average rise has been nearly one farthing per year in the pound weight : and 

 from the same period of time to the present, that butcher's meat has gradually risen 

 half a farthing per year in the pound weight of 16 ounces. Forty-four years 

 since butcher's meat sold in Liverpool market from id. to \^d. and 2.d. and 

 2\d. the best prime meat ; now, the best prime meal sells at %d. the average price 

 through the year : and if you run the chance of the market for small quantities of 

 the best prime meat of any kind, you must sometimes pay from xod. to is. per 

 pound. Cattle of all kinds, since the beginning of this year, 1804, are cheaper in 

 price by two guineas per head, to their size and bone, than they have been these 

 several years past, and have been gradually falling in price since the commence- 

 ment of this present year. Pigs are one-third cheaper ; pork may be bought from 

 ^d. to 6d. per pound; but beef, mutton, and veal keep up their prices, particularly 

 the best prime meat, although cattle are considerably lower in price. 



John Joseph Atherton. 



The rise in wages, in poor rates, and corn tithes being taken in kind, of course 

 must have a great effect upon our agriculture. Wheat can never pay a farmer 

 in this country under los. per bushel ; the present price is about -js. but the 

 fluctuation of prices is the bane of every thing. 



The custom of tithe here is, that the clergyman takes the eleventh sheaf; hay 

 and clover in the same proportion, though generally compounded for. 



