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The question of scarcity plainly stated, and remedies considered : With observations on permanent measures to keep wheat at a more regular price / by Arthur Young
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which last ought now to be the price for fallow wheat, supposing tbe deficiency only a third.

I need not be told that straw is in many places worth more than t1os.; 1 know it well: but J contend that the price of wheat must be sufficient to pay the farmer, where it is worth very little; and there are many such districts, not to speak of leases that prohibit the sale.

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doxical, who thinks that the opinion of any individual, however respeétable, when not derived from superior means of infor- mation, cannot with the smallest degree of pro- priety be resorted to as authority sufficient to

sverturn so many concurrent faéts. And the

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Committee of the House of Commons the pto-

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