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turally conclude there is plenty. Is the con- 
sumer to judge of scarcity, who daily sees 
plenty of bread and meat in every market ? 
No. It is left for Mr. Arthur Young to judge 
of it, who has received letters and reports 
from sixty-seven persons, residing promis- 
cuously in twenty -hve counties in England, 
who have not given themselves much trouble 
in an enquiry amongst the occupiers of the 
distridf s in which they reside ; and those men 
have informed Mr. Young that the last year's 
crop of wheat was deficient as seven in twenty, 
which is more tlian one-third ot the usual 
crop. 
That gentleman asserts, ‘ that through a 
very considerable portion of the kingdom 
wheat is almost uniformly thrashed out early 
in, or in the depth of winter, on account of 
cattle at that season doing better on the 
straw than they would do in spring.' 
The facl is, that, with every farmer equal 
to his undertaking, (which description of 
them comprehends at lea^st two-thirds of the 
occupiers of farms in England) it is a com- 
