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Taking the scale of comparison with bread, we shall find 

 a Winchester bushel of wheat of the usual weight of 4 stonfe 

 and 4| lb. when manufactured into flour of three sorts yields ; 



Of first flour - 2 st. 9 lb. 



Of second - 7 lb. 



Of third - 7 lb. 



9 lb. 



Lost by bran, &c. - 9|lb. 



The present cost is 10*. 3d. 2,400/6. of the three sorts of 

 flour will cost £.2Z 3s. 9d. To make it into bread, allow Is. 

 per bushel, which makes the cost of bread £.26 \0s. 9d. or 

 something more than 2|c?. per lb. exceeding twice the price 

 of the same weight of milk. To furnish 2,400/6^ of bread, 

 requires 47 bushels, or the average produce of two acres of 

 wheat. 



Three acres of green food supplied 30 milch cows with 2 

 stone each of green food for 200 days. Two stone of hay each 

 for the same period would have required 75 acres ofhay. Chaff 

 can scarcely be considered as of any value beyond the manure 

 it would make, which shows the profit of keeping milch cows in 

 all corn farms. 



Certificates of the quantities of miik sold and money received 

 accompany this. 



If the Society of Arts, &c. think the experiment worthy 

 their notice and approbation, I shall be highly flattered. At all 

 events, I trust they will accept it as a small tribute of respect and 

 gratitude for the many favours conferred upon their 



Obedient and very humble Servant, 



J. C. CURWEN. 



Workington Hall, JprillS, 1800, 

 To Dr. C. Taylor, Secretary. 



T 2 VIII. 



