68 Additional Information. 



Mr. John Reeve, 



One material circumstance is not inquired after, viz. the increase of assessed taxes. 

 The establishment in 1 790 I paid £26. js. for. I now pay £^'j. 45. 6d. exclusive 

 of the property tax. 



SUFFOLK. 



Mr. Thomas Simpson. 



I MUST beg leave to state that the last duty upon malt, with the additional tax 

 upon cart horses since 1 790, amounts to zs. per acre upon the arable land in this 

 neighbourhood. 



SUSSEX. 



Rev. Nicholas Turner. 



Preparing and raising a crop of turnips, or barley, or wheat, vary greatly in 

 expense, according to the different modes of culture: of course no single statement 

 would be explicit enough »o draw any useful conclusions from it. A few observa- 

 tions, therefore, is necessary, which I am induced to make, hoping they may contain 

 some information; at the same time, I am aware, it will require a very accurate prac- 

 tical knowledge to draw out such an account as will be a tolerable sure guide to the 

 Corn Committee ; for the several charges of any one crop should not all be placed 

 to the account of that crop, oftentimes a whole course is benefited by the prepara- 

 tion for the first crop, and it is very difficult to apportion the expense according 

 to the progressive aid such crop receives from the improvement. Indeed no pro- 

 fession or business depends so much on aggregation as that of a farmer; which will 

 appear on considering that neither turnips (which no good husbandman, on certain 

 soils, can farm without) ever pay their expenses; and that more than half the wheat 

 crop in tiie kingdom, (the grain that is supposed to enable the farmer to pay his 

 rent,) is in the same predicament, and verifies what an experienced farmer remarked, 

 on my complaining of his charging 95. per acre ploughing, that both parties would 

 be ruined — I who hired, and himself who was hired; so true it is, that agricultural 

 profits depend on aggregate produce, and that any statement of expense by hiring. 



