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Annals of Agriculture bas given us the expence to the farmer of raifing a crop of wheat in fome of the counties in England at this prefent day, the prime coft amounting to from 55. iod. to 7s. 10od. fer Winchefter bufhel, In vol. 15th he has ao given the felling price of grain in the Bannat on the river Tybufcus, viz. wheat at 18. 43d. rye at 1s. barley at Je per bufhel, and hay at 35. per tun. No fkill nor induftry could enable the farmers in England to raïfe corn at as cheap rates; but notwithftanding the amazing low price of corn, which Dr Smith fays regulates the price of all things, allow the free importation of Britifh manufatures into the Bannat, and they would not only rival but annihilate every manufañure in that country.

From every view of the fubject, in the preceding difcuffion, it plainly appears, that agriculture and manufa@ures are efta- blifhed on very different principles, and that whilft wealth and population raife confiderably the money price of corn, and other rude produce of the foil, they have not an‘equal effect in advancing the price of manufaétures. Thence, although. contrary to Dr Smith’s opinion, we may fairly deduce the following political maxim: That agriculture, in rich and populous countries, ftands more in need of a monopoly for its fapport than manufactures; and that the farther a nation a4- vances in profperity, it becomes the more neceflary to fecureits agriculture, not only by reftraining the importation of foreign corn, but alfo by removing every impediment which may pre-

vent, and by giving every encouragement, which may promote

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