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PMThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 Excerpt: ...in the crop of pulse, was discoverable. Its advance then was very rapid, and great part of the old stock being exhausted, apprehensions were entertained of an absolute famine. We may, therefore, from the foregoing statement, draw this fair inference, that three out of the five years before referred to were deficient in produce; and that the crops of 1791 and J793, 1793, though tolerable, were not sufficient to make good the deficiency of the three unproductive years. For argument fake, let us suppose the average produce of a good crop to be twenty bushels per acre, and the average consumption of the kingdom eighteen bushels? Let us also suppose the average produce of 1792 and 1794 not to exceed fourteen bushels, and that of 1795 not to exceed twelve bushels per acre, the amount will then stand thus, admitting that 1791 and 1793 were good years of produce: 1791,--20 bushels per acre. j 792,--14 ditto. 1793,--20 ditto. 1794,--14 ditto. 1795,--12 ditto. 80 Produce of five years. 90 Consumption in ditto. 10 Deficient, or two bushels per acre per annum. Admitting that three million of acres are annually sown with wheat, a deficiency of two bushels per acre, of produce, compared with the consumption, would require an annual importation, for the above stated five years, of 750,000 quarters. Now, according to a certain writer, the importation from foreign countries, for eighteen years, ending January 5th, 1789, amounted to only 42,657 quarters of wheat, and 283,175 quarters of oats per annum. From the statement made in the first report of the Select Committee appointed to take into consideration the means f promoting the cultivation and improvement of waste land, h appears that the total increase, in the consumption of cattle and sheep, for the last sixty-two years.

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