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vey this article to the Severn. Considerable quantities 
are also brought down this river from Shropshire, and 
the county is well supplied, large quantities always re¬ 
gaining stocked for use at Stourport upon the Severn; 
the general average price at which place, for several 
years, has been about 15s. per ton. 
In the Vale of Evesham, bean stubble is used for 
fuel, by poor people, who have it for their trouble in 
plucking it up from the land ; bean stubble ploughed in 
is thought to afford shelter for vermin, as well as to 
keep the soil too hollow; I questioned a poor woman 
who was plucking it up in Bredon, who said it was 
but poor fuel. Here coal is generally about 20s. per 
ton, sometimes more. 
