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At Wigenhall, St. jMary's, the average, five coombs per 

 acre ; sometimes not more than ten to tv^elve bushels. If 

 ;his is true, it stamps their husbandry sufficiently. 



At Waipole, five coombs the small acre; more than 

 three roods. By another account, five and a half. 



Near the Smeeth, seven to ten coombs. 



About Wymondham, five. 



General average of the county, six coombs. 



Profit, compared v:ith Oats. — Mr. Fellowes, of 

 Shottesham, remarks, that oats pay better than wheat, 

 in many cases even which are supposed to be par- 

 ticularly favourable to wheat, as in clover lays. He has 

 found it more profitable to plough a clover lay late in aa- 

 tumn; but before much wet conies, and to leave it tili 

 the springs and then, as early as may be, harrow in oats 

 or barley, on that stale furraw, and the crops have been 

 so great, as to pay better than wheat ; but oats better than 

 barle}'. This seems to be, among odiers,. one proof that 

 wheat has been too cheap. 



Price. — In discourse with Mr. Parmenter, a miller 

 of Aylesham, on what ought to be the price of wheat, re- 

 fprence being had to the farmer and to the poor, he gave 

 it as his opinion, that 30s. a coomb, on the average of 

 samples, would be that fair price for ail parties. He re- 

 marked, that the very high prices we have seen, were not 

 advantageous to millers, by reason of the great capital de~ IIIl, 



manded, and from a want of proportion in tlie price of 

 bran. When wheat was 4I. a coomb, bran was not 

 higher than is. a bushel. Within four years he has bought 

 a great deal of wheat, as he shewed me by his books, at 

 2 IS. and 22s. bran at 6d. and yd. 



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