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ſame fortune. He carries his corn to market, where he is ſure to ſell its value at that market, and as the corn is gene- rally paid for within a fhort time after it is delivered, his bad debts are nothing compared with thoſé of a trader. Nor is he obliged, every market day, to receive the viſits of half a ſcore old women, who, after examining and making obſeryg- dons on all the goods in his fhop, aſſemble over his tea-table, to make matches between perſons who never ſaw each other, and ſpoil half the reputations in the neighbourhood. But they are his cuſtomers and muſt be invited.

The meaſure propoſed by Agricola Septrionalis, of giving a temporary bounty on exportation, inſtead of being beneficlal, would prove one of the moſt injurious tliat could be thought of. Many, from the advanced price of corn, would be tempted to take long leaſes of farms at an advanced rent: no ſooner have they done it than the bounty is repealed, and, conſequently, a diminution in the value of corn immediately takes place, and, unleſs he be a man of great property, bankruptey and ruin muſt inevitably enſue. In all that I have here fſaid, I would not have any of your readers ſuppoſe, that I attribute any part of thé preſent high price of corn to the late corn act.

Its effects cannot have begun to operate yet, as corn has:

never, fince its being paſſed, been ſufficiently low for the bounty to take place. We havée no occaſion to look for any other cauſe, than the deficiency of the two laſt crops of wheat The laſt crop of barley is alſo, I am ſorry to ſay, Very de. fective.

There were lately two agricultural experiments made in this neighbourhood, which you may think worth communicating to your readers. One was on the efficacy of lime as a me nure. Four ridges, about twenty yards wide each, in the middle of a large field, were alternately manured with lime and rape ſeed cake. The quantity of lime was, I think, three chaldrons to an acre. The part oil caked had a quarter of a ton an acre, drilled by a machine, which throws the oll

cake, reduced to powder, and the turnip ſeed, into the ſame

drills. The ſoil was a ſtrong, dry, red loam, with a few ſpots of gravel interſperſed in different parts of the figld. On theſe gravelly ſpots the turnips were rather ſuperior on the parts which were limed, but on the loam the oil-caked ridges produced, at leaſt, double the weight of thoſe which wére limed.

The other experiment was between the Northumberland and broadcaſt methods of ſowing turnips. The event moſt be

very gratifying to Agricola Nofthumbrienſis, as from a por-

tion of each weighed, it was two tons ſeven hundred weight in favour of the Northumberland method, although it was rhe firſt time that any turnips had ever been ſown, in that manner Dd da 2