General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset, with Observations on the Means of Its Improvement. Drawn Up in the Year 1795, for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Second Edition
General View of the Agriculture of the County of Somerset, with Observations on the Means of Its Improvement. Drawn Up in the Year 1795, for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Second Edition
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ...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 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1798 edition. Excerpt: ...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: 80 Produce of five years. 90 Consumption in ditto. jo Deficient, or two huihels 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 75000 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 23 75 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, it appears that the total increase, in the consumption of cattle and sheep, for the last sixty-two years, amounts to the enormous number of 32,854 head of cattle, and 203,290 sheep, or nearly one-third for the metropolis alone; and as the size and weight, both of cattle and sheep, have probably increased at least one-fourth since 1732, such augmented proportion ought to be added to the calculation of consumption. This denotes such an increase, both of inhabitants and of luxury, as must have been attended with a proportionate consumption of butter, cheese, hay, &c.; and if extended to the whole kingdom, clearly accounts for the...
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