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Watson’s calculations in “ Blackwood’s Magazin 
Dx. CHARGES, 
Rent, the, at tive £850 0 0 
Interest on capital, at 81 — 
2000l. invested at 5 per £100 0 0 
To give back the eapital i in 20 years 100 0 0 
20008. floating, at 5 per cen 100 0 0 
300 0 0 
Wages, at 2s. 600 0 0 
Corn ——— 3 horses and for seed... 350 0 
Tradesmen’s bills and sundry charges... 150 0 0 
in addition to 5 cent. vail 
per 
one pag for interest on capital 309 7 6 
22559 7 6 
S On. 
ꝗrs. ‘acre, 
ger te ean $ „ETN 6 
Acres o; ars. per acre, 
3124 ars., at 288. 437 10 0 
— 809 7 6 
: — 
3 15. ‘acres of Wheat, at 3) grs. per acre, 
— 6— — — 
125 acres of roots oe 
250 acres, at 3l. an sere 750 0 0 
Ditto from consuming straw, 
the growth of 250 ares 125 0 0 
£2559 7 6 
6—1850.] THE 
AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
a word, land rent tea at 328. an acre, employing 102. 
an acre 
for the only re 
from these is the 800/. 2 of five stock, which, are kept 
at a cost of — viz. 
— B28. a 8 . £480 0 0 
300 wes 240 0 0 
wages, & c. 300 0 0 
—— and consumption 3 200 0 0 
— — live stock aes 100 0 0 
Public burdens 30 0 0 
0 
£1350 0 
So that if Mr. Watson's „ be correct, Scotch 
farming under former | here 
of eee oa —4 nea tee 170 
sixths ing 
ng held up as a 
h, doubtless, one must allow 
irit partisanshi ya in these calcula- 
for the pur- 
g1 
grain growing, 
put at 34s. an 7 W the capital 
that has been employed being 81. an 
* — —— charges and returns for 500 a fertile grain- 
and,” cultivated on the Norfolk 4- e * and 
against Mr. 
ea) 
thought sufficiently —2 & I At emr wh — next 
ent of the 
bee 
ee tinue it down 
tury when the 
— 
lose their curiosity. C. Wren — 1 do.] 
OF THE PRICES OF WHEAT IN ENGLAND, 
a | State in — last Number 
— ) AUTHORITY, 
1463 At Norfolk’ i yr Pienen 5 
14% „ White Wheat,’ by ghe w. | 0 6 8 Cotton 
486 |“ Whea at very dear,” at 14 OF 
1491 | Wheat, the qr., at 0 14 8 2 
1494 Mheat cheap,“ at. 0 4 6) Do. 
1495 | Wheat, per qr. -10 8 4 Do 
1497 |‘ Wheat very dear’ 1 0 Do, 
Pod bial ein ee A 
1524 paun. Wheat per qr.” . 1 H rn 
1551 t by the qr. 0 8 O Do, 
anal pote Prenat: at that price 
for four 
1557 In this year, before Ji 
> 213 4 
— ‘ But after har vest, at London? 0 5 0 De 
— And in vin rt 0 4 0) Do. 
1558 | Whea * 0 8 0 Fleetwood 
And continued | at that price 
r four years. 
1574 Such a dearth at cong E 
pate be oS 
— n 
1587 eat was, at Lon 3 4 00 Do. 
— ee eee tom. 013 0| Do, 
“This was 
— — resell T, i 
1594 | Wheat, the ꝗr., alt 2 16 00 Do, 
15950 DOA Nh 
213 4 Do. 
1596 Wheat, by reason of great 
4 0 0 De 
1597 E — H a de be” 40 0} Do 
dence. 
— Private Money Drainage Act.—You 
“that some of the large Life 
Assurance Offices have intimated to the Inelosure — 
| missioners their willin: 
1,500,000]. or 2,000, 0002 for the English 
landlords, farmers, and labourers from their present 
difficulties 4 =ne te 
Arsenic.— Your correspondent, “J. B.,“ says 
prefers 1 Wheat, to 
as i. e. blue-stone). however, 
experience; for after several years practice. 
— calk lly too, as 
successful as far as the preven- 
tion of smut in the erop, I here for the last 10 years 
phate to my 
thout suffering from a of . 4 
wish your correspondent had at more length deserihed 
the drill he mentions for using his seed wich, as in 
It will soon eat its way out of a 
. — ax 
— to send. 2 
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danger. : 
Bor quite so easy to place without fan — 
T will at once mention the effective one; = 2 
round communication nom 
TABLE 
FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE ELEVENTH TO THE 
END OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. 
| YEAR. s. d. AUTHOBITY, 
1043“ So go by ms in Eng- 
1 Jan sester (Sex. 
— or — Wheat 
sold for 6 0 Huntington; 
2 The dearest gear in England oo de Monte 
060 
1196 |“ — N searcity that a at 
senton a = leiosum 
old for .| 0 13 4 Chron: Pre- 
1197 ony 018 8 Do. 
1202 80 great a scareity, occa- 
oned continual rains, 
that a qr. of Wheatsold for”) 0 12 0|WaverleyAnnals | 
1205 S0 great a frost (lasting 
from Jan. 14 to March 19) 
that the qr. so — . 0 12 Matthew Paris 
— The groun hard 
that it —.— peers ni tilled, 
— — mmer following 
wis n : | 0 13 48 
1237 Wheat, by the dr., was” 0 3 4 “a 8 (An- 
tiq: Peterbo- 
1243 ae: so plentiful that Wheat rough) 
eas were each of them 
3 0 2 Matthew Paris 
1246 A qr. of Wheat so dear,» at 0 16 0 Thos. Wikes 
1247 — . till dear,“ at 0 13 4) Do, 
1258 80 great a famine that many 
— were per gl ” Wheat [for 
per qr 9 16 00 Walter Heming- 
In some me places 1 0 O Stow 
1270 |“ Wheat was so sear, ‘that it ö 
wa t,” per qr. 416 0 Fleetwood 
— And in some Ml at 16s. 
the bushel, “so that parents [Britan. 
1 owa children“ hf 6 8 0 Author of Antig. 
1286 Wheat per qr., alt. 0 2 80Fleetwood 
— “ But suc storm of rain, 
thunder, and lightning fell 
— et’s night, 
— Wheat ame by de- 
to” 6 0| Do. 
1287 Wheat s so cheap that it sold 
at” nay, AA | 0 3 / Knyghton 
1288 80 great the plenty of © 
and scarcity of 3 . 
reat was sold by the qr. 
| 0 1 6)AnnalesWigorn. 
“ich 0 2 ©) WaverleyAnnals 
„At London” 0 3 4/Stow 
p — other parts of England » 
0 1 4| Do. 
re Nay, — the North and West 
0 0 8. Do, 
1289 By — — great hail and 
rain, pe m 28. 
the qr. «| 010 8) Do. 
* a oii aae „1 0 6} Do, 
1290 | Wheat per qr. 016 00 Walsingham 
a “ Which scarcity continued 
off and on for ‘many years 
1294 Wheat per qr. = . 0 16 0)Fabian 
— ae me yas high as 1 0 O Kuyghton 
1302 Wheat by the qr.“ ..| O 4 0 Dugdale 
Re * ae Pa? ...| 0 8 4] Do. 
— Peas, a 1 
— Oats, a 0 2 0} Do, 
1909 Wheat, are 2 4° = ah Thorn 
heat, Beans, and Peas, a Walsingham 
ng t, at 0 13 4) Do. 
— ( Nay, b the h t 
ay d h such that ; 
Wheat came to 30s. and” ...| 2 0 0} Do, 
(A Proclamation issued that 
no ‘more Wh * á 
malted.) 
1316 a exceeding m Eer 112 0|Fabian 
1317 | m — 2 a — 2 orn, 
Leicester Wheat 
2 4 0) Knyghton 
1996 |* Sach, ple nty “of corn poe. 
searcity of money, that” 
. neh, a was, p. qr. a ~< — ton 
B | 09 010) Do. 
Bees and Beans, at 0 © e 
1339 Wheat and Malt, at 10 9 0% Do. 
‘| Oats, ts, Beans, and Peas 0 5 0| Do, 
1349 aenar 4 — chat Wheat 
0 2 0|Antiq. Britan, 
1359 |“ Wheat very dear, 80 that 
í * qr. was : 1 6 8 Fabian 
140 — * <a i 
1861 —— heap that o 2 olDugdale 
af Wheat 80 dear that” a gr, 
ape e a, 015 0/Kennet 
1369 Such, a dearth that Whea: 
» 1 4 0| Walsingham 
oaks 1 0 Ofstow 
1379 | Wheat so cheap that, & 0 £0) Do, 
1387 | Wheat, by the qr. lar Lei- © 2 0 Do. 
1390 Wheat at Leicester, by the qr., 
| from 13s. 4d. to ..| 0 16 8 Knyghton . 
1401 |‘ Wheat very dear,’ at. „ 0 16 0) Pabian 
— “Sowing Wheat,” ä Do. 
1416 |‘ Wheat very dear,’ at | 916 0 Fabian 
1423 „ Wheat cheap 8 „0 8 Ol Do. 
1425 Wheat at 0 4 0 Kennet 
1434 — autumn was 80 _ that 
almost two years fo 
ar Wheat was * 
VVT 
1497 «Yet at the end of the year 
‘ollowing it came again to 0 5 4 Hist. Croyland 
| a 28 sold, 45 1 0 OStow 
— 38 = 310 
reity continued 1 4 ©) Do. 
1444 Wheat, perqr.... .., 0 4 4 Fleetwood 
445 Mee. wae © Do, 
1447 | Wheat by the qr. I 
1449 Ditto „ . 
2481 Ditto dito. — 0 L — 
1453 
1455 ‘Wheat very cheap,’ at «= 2 Do. 
1457 — the — 9 T 8 Do, 
1459 —— 3 Hee 4 
1463 Die aie z se fO 2 Ol Anon, 
