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intercalate tares, rye, turnips, scarlet trefoil, Belgian carrots, 
&c., and above all, by landlords making homesteads in a con- 
dition capable of collecting and preserving every atom of 
manure, that the agriculture of Great Britain will be able to 
keep pace with her steadily increasing population.* 
Mr. Ingham. — I should like to ask, whether Mr. Thorp does 
not think the climate in this country is very much against the 
possibility of growing green crops, — a crop of turnips, for 
instance, after a crop of corn? This is effected in some 
countries, but I doubt whether it could be done here. It 
strikes me that there is a difficulty on that point in the 
lateness of our harvests. 
Earl Fitzwilliam The observation which has fallen 
from Mr. Ingham is well worthy of consideration. I should 
be glad to hear Mr. Thorp's rejoinder to it, and hope he 
These periods are taken from James Wilson, Esq., on "The Influences of the 
Corn Laws." The seasons have some certain influence, but there are other per- 
turbing causes which affect the price of corn. 
Increasing Supplies and falling Prices. Increasing Supplies and falling Prices. 
s. 
d. 
s. d. 
1817 ... 
... 94 
1830 . 
. , , 64 3 
1818 .,, 
... 83 
« 
1831 . 
. 66 0 
1819 . , 
... 72 
1832 . 
58 8 
1820 ... 
... 65 
10 
1833 . 
52 11 
1821 
... 54 
5 
1834 . 
46 2 
1822 , , , 
... 43 
3 — Warm period. 
1835 . 
39 4 — Warm period. 
Diminishing Supplies and rising Prices, 
s. d. 
1823 51 9 
1824 62 0 
1825 66 6 
1826 56 11 
1827 59 9 
1828 60 5 
1829 66 6— Cold period. 
Diminishing Supplies and rising Prices, 
s. d. 
48 6 
55 10 
64 7 
70 8 
1836 
1837 
1838 
1839 
1840 
1841 
1842 
Cold period. 
* The increase of population in the United Kingdom is equal to 1 1 per cent, 
per annum, or about 4,000,000 in every ten years ; and as each person consumes 
£8 worth of raw agricultural produce, the agricultural progress, in order to feed 
our own people, must be equal to £32,000,000 in every ten years. 
