Additional Information. 



7' 



ffheat, after Summer Fallow. 1 804. 



£. s. d. 

 Rent - - - I 10 o 



Ploughing, rolling, and harrowing 2 12 o 

 Lime - - - 300 



Seed - - - 126 



Reaping - - - o 10 o 



Threshing - - 080 



Harvesting - - 040 



Carriage out - - 050 



Tithe and poor rate, 1 4x. on/" 1. 1 OJ. I i o 



Produce 

 Loss 



ffheat, on Clover Ley, 



1804. 

 i. s. d. 

 o 15 

 » 12 



3 ° 



I 2 

 o 10 

 o 8 



o 4 



o 5 



o 10 



770 

 6 12 o 



o 15 



I believe the charges on the several crops are nearly correct, and (except the 

 difference of rent), on reference to your worthy President, Lord Sheffield, he will 

 concur, that they are the charges on fallowing in his neighbourhood, and through 

 the Weald of Kent and Sussex, when any new tenant takes possession. 



Trifling inaccuracies there may be, but I assert they are but trifling. What then 

 are the conclusions that are to be drawn from them ? It must follow, that the queries 

 being only partial to such and such crops, are not comprehensive enough for the 

 complex nature of farming business; and that the accounts, as here exhibited, 

 shewing to the Committee, farming to be a losing trade in every point of view, 

 must have the effect of misleading their judgment; which the general question of 

 what are the profits of a farmer on the whole of his business, would not have done. 

 At the same time, enough transpires by the accounts, to shew agriculture is at a 

 very low ebb, from an increase of 30 per cent, on the farmer's expenditure, and 

 the great decrease in the price of grain. Wheat and barley being the only sort of 

 corn in the queries, it may not be improper to consider why they are so cheap : 

 and first, of wheat, from the dryness of last summer, is supposed to be in great 

 plenty ; and old experienced farmers assert, that if this and next summer should 

 be also dry, that wheat will not be more than ^5. the load; so true is the old adage, 

 A dry summer for Old England. Barley also last year yielded remarkably well ; 

 but the new duty on malt acts as a prohibition. There is no demand, notwith- 

 standing so much barley has been used to fat oxen. The supervisor at Chichester 

 reports, that more than one half the malt-houses in his district are shut up; indeed 



