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product ought to have turned out less rather than ereater—but such was the fact.

From. all these journies, united with other nu- merous authorities since the establishment of the Board of Agriculture, I formed the following table

AVERAGE PRODUCTS OF WHEAT IN ENGLAND.

Bush. Bushs

Bedford= Zo~=>- Lincoln‘_ 28 Bucks- 214+ Middlesex. 24. Berks a“ 24. Monmouth- 20 Cambridge° 23; Northampton- 24. Cornwall= 2 Notts_ 22 Cheshire-~ 23 Northumberland. 27 Cumberland a 22#£xNorfolk< 24 Durham° 21 Oxford= 20 Dorset.= 223 Rutland: 28 Derby> 24. Stafford c 26 Devon a« 622' Surrey 23 Essex=: 242 Sussex~ 26 Gloucester~ 18 Suffolk— 22 Hants- 22 Somerset= 2 4 Hereford 5 224 Salop is 20 Hunts>- 15 Westmoreland- 20 Hertford= 23. Warwick- 24. Kent 2 24.‘Worcester° 24. Lancaster“ z4. Wilts- 22 Leicester> 25 York> 22

Average a fraction less than 23

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In 1793 and 1794 the whole kingdom was surveyed by order of the Board of Agriculture: unfortunately it was done too rapidly, and those first surveys, cannot upon the whole be appealed to as satisfactory authority; whether upon this

point of produce a better reliance on t! 1em 1s to