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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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bad a season for sowing. Much thrown out (Dec. 2) for spoiled corn.

Devon. Not half an average crop. Cornwail. Fourteen bushels per acre: if as deficient

t Wet elsewhere, there will be from 15 to 20 mil.

lions of bushels wanting for 10,000,000

> b) people: the deficiency from one-fourth to one-third.

Short of 16 bushels. Barley deficient! ¥

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third.

Wheat not very much below an average.

Deficient one-third, ditto one-fourth. scotland. Deficiency in the south nearly half. Oats

the same.

Norfolk. Wheat four combs instead of five the ave. rage, dry land: ditto wet land, deficiency full one-third.

suffolk. Deficient one-third. Oats and barley under average.

Northumberland, The ¢aiJ wheat last year, better than the Crop this.Nothing ever like 1twe have neither quantity nor guality.

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Hssex, deficiency 5 in 20 Westmoreland~~ 6 2-3ds in. 20 Hants- 6 2-3ds in 20 Lincoln-~_- 8 in 20 Berks=- 6 in 20 Oxford-- 6 2-3ds in 26 Kent- 6 in 20 Notts~-- in 20 Derby 8 in- 20 York 10 in 20 Bedford 6 2-3ds in 20 Cambridge 5 1-half in 20 south Wales 11 in 20 C Leicester