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heat is double the value of the inferior grain over-head*, CHAP.T. To avoid multiplicity of computations, we fhall rank malt as D barley, and throw, upon the general confumption of the people, the grain confumed by horfes not employed in agri- culture, and by hogs, poultry, ftarchmakers,&c.; and when it is confidered that a great number of the people live chieñiy upon the inferior grain, we cannot, under all thefe circum-
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ftances, appropriate lefs than two quarters of the feveral forts
of grain over-head, to the confumption of each perfon, upon
‘ thought too high an eflimation of the confumption of men, one with the other, to ‘rate it at 3 fetiers a year; if there are thofe that eat lefs, there are a great many “who confume more” Three fetiers are equal to 1 qr. 4b. 3 p. London meañure. Corn Traëts, p. 188. 190.
Our foldiers when encamped, and prifoners of war, are allowed a pound and a half of brown bread, each day, which is equal to 9 bufhels of wheat yearly.
In the royal-hofpitals of Chelfea and Greenwich, the allowanceis one pound a day; of wheaten bread, which is faid to go farther than a larger quantity of brown bread, which requires 7 bufhels of wheat yearly.
Thefe computations are made from wheat of the beft quality.
People who labour hard, and who form the larger part of the community, will confume more than either of thofe portions; and the weaker that any grain is, ît * will require the greater quantity of it for fuftenance.
Wheat, as the fuperior, commandés in a great meafure, in all feafons, the value or price of the inferior grain; and as its proportional value to the latter can be afcer- tained with certainty, we have made choice of the fuperior grain fingly, as the foun-
D© to 0) dation of our computations in the prefent work.
Aäüd to this that we could not find fo many authentic proofs of the prices of the inferior grain, at diftant periods, as of wheat; and that the different kinds of inferior grain, Were not always comprehended in the fame law, the calculations will be in- finitely more comprehenfible, when made from one object or datum, initead of feven or eight.
* Vide Explanatory Table, Appendix, No 8. art. 6.
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