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leffen the breed of dogs, they increafe it. 
And in refpeét to porliry, whether any al- 
teration, by laying {mall farms into large 
ones, has leffened the breed, our confump- 
tion will beft determine; for near dou- 
ble the quantity (at leaft in London) 1s 
confumed now, than was fifty years ago. 
Such an amazing increafe of this ar- 
ticle of provifions, muft fhow, that not 
only the praétice of breeding poultry is: 
become more general, but that it 1s rea- 
fonable to believe, fome great benefit has 
arifen, to promote this great produce, 
from land being better cultivated.” 1 am 
perfuaded, fir, that the high price of 
bread corn may be fatisfaétorily accounted 
for, to every unprejudiced and reflect- 
ing mind, on far better grounds than 
either a monopoly, or the increafe of 
large farms.—The /wo laft crops of 
wheat, taken generally, have been far 
from abundant ; and there has been a 
failure of the importation of foreign 
wheat (till very lately) in any con- 
fiderable quantities : thefe admitted facts, 
when compared with our aftonifhing con- 
fumption (beyond all former experience) 
lead to the true caufe of that comparative 
fcarcity which has been felt—T he fup- 
ply has not been adequate to the de- 
mand: and if fleets and armies muft be 
victualled ; if thofe whofe part we have 
been taking in the prefent conteft, ftand 
_in need of a fupply from our granaries : 
till thefe calls fhall ceafe. the poor man 
of Britain muft be contented to yield a 
part of his loaf; or Providence afford us 
a harveft, more than ufually plentiful.— 
Let us not, then, impute blame, where 
blame is by zo means due; from my own 
obfervations, I am well convinced, that 
many large farmers, for their {pirited 
exertions in raifing of cattle and of corn, 
are entitled (inftead of réproach and cen- 
fure) to the gratitude of their country. 
- A FRIEND TO AGRICULTURE. 
Fune oth, 1796. 

Jo the Editor’ of the Monthly Magazine 
OS ASTR, i . 
eee following interefting particulars, 
relative to the internal management 
of the cotton manufactory at Glafgow, 
have been lately tranfmitted by Mr. Da- 
vip DALE, an eminent cotton manu- 
facturer, of that place, to T. B. Bay- 
LEY, efq. of Hope, near Manchefter, in 
anfwer to fome Queries addreffed by the 
latter gentleman to Mr. Dale.—As-one - 
- of: the numerous readers of the Monthly 
Magazine, in the town of Manchetter, 
Iwith Mr. Dale’s letter to be preferved 
Employment, 80c. in Cotton Manufafiories. 
Se 
[July 
and circulated in your publication, in the’ 
hope that it may produce fome other 
communication of equal value relative to 
other manufaétories. Your’s, 
Fuly 8, 1796. , A. B. 
QUERIES SUBMITTED TO MR. DALE, 
OF GLASGOW, BY DMR. BAYLEY, 
OF MANCHESTER. 
1. Ihe dimenfions of {pinning-rooms, efpe- 
cially the beight £ 
Number of fpindles in a room? 
Modes of ventilation and purification ? 
. Number of boys and girls in one room? 
Hours of labour, of refi, and for meals ? 
. Rules for cleanline/s and health? — 
. Time and manner of teaching the chil- 
dren to read, and of religious-jnftrue- 
tion ? 
Mode and time of biring? —» 
g. Whence the mills are fupplied with lae - 
bourers? 
Means employed to prevent, or to cor- 
reé ibe typhous fever? 
Mode of lodging and feeding the chile 
dren 2 
. What are they fit for when too big for 
the [pindles ? 
13. Are they commoaly firong for labour, or 
otherwife ? Se. 
MR. DALE'S ANSWERS TO THE SAME. 
1. The fpinning, and all the other 
rooms, are of the whole extent of the 
buildings, without any fubdivifions, and 
are from one hundred and twenty to dne 
hundred and fifty feet long ; from twenty- 
fix to thirty feet wide, and all of them 
in height ten feet from floor to floor, or 
nine feet clear of the beams. 
z. The fpinning-rooms contain each 
about two thoufand {pindles. 
3- Ventilation is greatly promoted by 
the rapid motion of many parts of the 
machinery ; frefh air is introduced by re- 
gularly opening the windows at top, oR 
both fides of the houfe. To increafe the 
circulation of this ftill more, air-holes, 
fix inches fquare, on a level with the 
floor, are opened below every other win- 
dow through the walls, at the diftance 
of fourteen feet from each other; but 
thefe are only of advantage in fummer, 
as the cold in winter precludes the ufe of 
them. ‘The means of purification in ufe 
are, wafhing the walls and cielings of the 
rooms, at leaft once a year, with new. 
flacked lime, weekly wafhings of the 
floors and machinery with fcalding water, 
and frequent and conftant brufhings of 
the walls, cieling, and floor. 
4. The greateft number of perfons in 
any one room is feventy-five, in fome 
there are only fifty. 
yee g.°ihe 
