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/y, By a law for regulating the allowance of

millers; obliging them to grind for money, and return the weight of the grain in meal, after deducting the juft propor-

tion of wafte.[ have frequently known poor people take bread

the procefs of manufatturing wheat into bread, it appears, that a bufhel of tythe

wheat weighed Go Ibs. which produced 451bs. of flour of a medium finenefs, of which

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60 1bs. of ftandard wheaten bread was made, and alfo 9 Ibs. of coarfe flour, of which 132 Ibs. of bread was made, making in all 734 1bs. per bufhel: Whereas the law fup-

pofes there are only 52 Ibs. 2 ozs. made from the bufhel.— But this experiment of

Sir George Young only points out part of the evil; it does not dete&t the frauds that

are committed, wherever the aflize of bread is regulated by the current prices of

wheat, from its produce in flour being divided into a larger portion of fine flour than the law dires. 1 once fold a parcel of fine wheat, the produce of my own farm, the price of which was to be determined by the quantity of flour it produced. The return from the mill was 34 Ibs. fine flour, and 20 Ibs. houfehold, per bufhel, in all 54 lbs. the exaét quantity obtained by Sir George Young. Suppofing the wheat to be fold at ics. 6d. per bufhel, including the allowance to the baker, it would produce,

Of wheaten bread 9 quarterns at 15.-- 6 09 Ditto 4 twopenny loaves--- ce

Of houfehold 5 quarterns at 9d.-:- Ô':4% Ditto 3 twopenny loaves- È E.©:-9*-:6

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6 quarterns wheaten at 15.

œ 1] à1 rat 2 Fegalallowance 42 ditto houfehold at od.

Profit to the Baker L.o 3 5 per bufhel over and above the legal aïlowance. This extra profit is calculated on the le- gal eftimation, that a fack of flour only produces 80 quartern loaves. But upon my enquiring fome time ago, how much bread was made in London, from a given quan- tity of flour, at an intelligent young man, who had the management of à bake- houfe in that city, he anfwered me, that his mafter never complained, when they

made 86 quarterns out of the fack, Upon comparing this quantity with the propor-

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