1 169 1 degree of fucceſs, as late as the beginning of July; and the moſt abundant crop I ever experienced was planted on the eighth; and three or four ſuc- — ceffive days in June, to full twenty tons per acre. 1 Ihave faid thus much at this time of ſuppoſed or real ſcarcity, per- d fuading myſelf of your willingneſs to circulate ſuch obſervations as tend in any ſort to remove a complaint otf. ſo ſerious a nature.

8 I am, 8 1R, Nour obedient ſervant,

Briol, M1a) 24, 1795. NEHEMIAIH BAKTLEV.

No. XV.

. O peruſal of the anſwers publiſhed in the Annals of Agriculture to a circular letter of the Editor's, the writer of thiis was particularly ſtricken with the account given of the confumption of wheat in two families(ſee Annals, page 223, No. 136); in Which is related, That a family of nine eat five bufhels and a half in four weeks; and that another family of ſeven perſons, cat five buſhels in four weeks. Now, ſuppoſing the buſhel Wincheſter, and the weight§7 1bs. cach bufhel(according to the act) the conſumption was in the family of nine, bs. 8. 708 cach perfon per weck; and in the family of ſeven, lbs. 10. 178 each perſon per week.

From facts of ſuch important national concern, at this particular junc- ture, ſome further data well aſcertained may afford many uſeful hints to the political arithmerician; and for which purpoſe the following have becn collected by the kind affiſtance of two neighbours.

4 No. 1. A family of fourteen, have each conſumed lbs. 5. 75, taken on an average of the laſt ſeven wecks.

No. 2. A family of ten people(four of whom are children) have each

conſumed lbs. 5. 337, on an average of the laſt twenty weeks.. No. 3. A family of forty have each conſumed Ibs. 6. 562 5 of wheat cach . perſon, on an average of the laſt twelve weeks. The conſumption of the 4 laſt family excecding the other two may be eaſily explained, by the latter 8 having regularly and daily either dumplings or puddings under ſome form, and which are reckoned to make a greater Ihare of the meal than the ufual

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