394 Table 9f the Ertent of Arable Land,&c. fJune

At E, 1s fixed a cord, which, when the bucket comes to within four or five inches of its lowest projection, becomes Stretehed, and opens a valve at the bottom of it, through which the water empties itself.

I am, Sir, yours,&c.

June 2, 1804. EI

REINI III

A TABLE OF THE EXTENT OF ARABLE LAND IN TIE COUN- TIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES, ALPHABETICALLY AR- RANGED, WITH NOTICES OF THE QUANTITY OF WHEAT PRODUCED PER AGRE.IN SOME OF THEM, UNDER THE PRESENT IMPROVEMENTS IN IIUSBANDRY.

To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. Si1R, DO not affirm that the annexed table is perfectly accu- rate; my intention I1s only to State quantity in round numbers, and to give the best account 1 can produce of the comparative crops of wheat during tbe last three or four

"ears.

These general calculations, although they are very far from being accurate, are both useful to the politician and the cultivator: they inform the one of the means of public, the other the Sources of private Subsistence, and contribute to that Species of mental and corporeal energy, which 1s essential to the general good. 1] acknowledge the comprehensive view 1] have given is Somewhat like the Sweeping Scheme of Choro- graphus in his earlier communications to your work, but 1 am not at all ashamed of it on that account, and I have been concerned to find, both his papers and those of Veterinarius discontinued in your last number.

Counties. Bushels per Acre.| Acres arable; INN WESEN 4.154.059. EINES 200,000 ESSA ONG de 20 ds vu 028er EE IIS HN 22 260,000 | I ARIE Menn 208 6 26 y 527,000 Brecknock. SAA IS 620,000 DAITCHNNNNDNAUDN E44 2202 ae 9225 nen 231 441,000 CAM DTNeEN ee. 700,000 Cambridge...„it 251 570,000 ES 0) III: 520,000 CAN MRUDON 24 124x229 8 2 0SDLOPZZUSESTEN 370,000 Chester... MEIST 25 720,000 Cornwall... WER MEET SE aue IS 22 960,000 Cumberland fader 24 1,040,000