Additional Tiiforwation. 



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rates, which is the case in this coumy, and a great increase in the price of every 

 thing he consumes; what situation must he be in when the main produce of his 

 fiirm sells for less than it did fourteen years since. It is a fact, that two or three 

 weeks since the best barley (and better never was seen) could not be sold at i8j". 

 per quarter, by country measure, which is lo per cent, larger than Winchester, and 

 which consequently reduces it to liitle more than i6s. per quarter; though a small 

 increase has since taken place, in consequence of the demands of seed-time; and 

 there was, and still is, no demand for wheat at 55. 6d. per bushel He must either 

 be very soon ruined, or his rents must be very greatly reduced, and if they are re- 

 duced, the owner of the soil must be ruined instead of him, since he pays an enor- 

 mous increase of personal taxes, and in most instances near double, and in some 

 treble, for what he consumes ; or the occupier of the ground will cease to grow 

 what he is not likely to be paid for, and another scarcity must be the consequetice. 

 Already arrangements are made to grow less corn this year than the last, and much 

 less the next. I am satisfied. Sir, that the above may not be perfectly accurately 

 calculated, and state it only as an approximation ; but, believing it not to be far 

 wrong, it may afford matter for serious reflection^ 



Mr. G. Hardwick. 



Turnips for 1790, per Acre. 



£' s. d. 

 Ploughing six times, at 5J>. - 1 10 o 



H.irrowing five ditto, at is. 6d. -076 



Lime, 2 chaldrons, at 13s. 6d. - 170 



Dung, 7 waggons, short, at 5s. - 115 o 



Seed, 2 lb. at 6d. per lb. - -010 



Hoeing, (little practised at this pe- 

 riod here) ^ 



Turnips foriioi^, per Acre. 



£.s.d. 



Ploughing SIX times, at 6s. - i 16 O 



Harrowing five times, at zs. per acre 010 o 



Lime, 2 chaldrons, at 14s 6d. - 190 



7 waggons short dung, at 9s. - 330 



Seed, 2 lb. at is. 3d. • - 026 



Hoeing is universally practised at "> 



present, once or twice 



£■7 6 6 



