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AGRICVLIUNAL REPO r.
Extract from the Evidence 'annexed to the Re-
port of the Select Committee d the House of
Commons upon the Agricoltdre of the Visited
Kiugdotst.
• lresertt, 13 lie Apriffs,
TROlllaa Solution Goers, Esq. is the Clair.
David Hodgeoo, Fem. operas eallod des sod seemalmoi.
la a former part of your evidence yos gave it as your opi+
aims, that the reseal law price of eon is ft be ateilleutod
partly no ths aboodoese of the lost crop, sod partly to dm
emessime of growth ; do you masa a general estossiem
of greartb tareargbout time Weirdoes, or only I. that par-
tieelsv I. wind you live Po-1 wily inferred
a enteosioa of groat'', I bad sit observed it ; I inferred it,
in 1 stated'yeeterday, Trona the deemerata I gays of the
log off of the cooessaptioa of butcher. most.
Tip have stated that them has bogs a ANiisß leaf bottle-
ore sites used it Liverpool, sod at some neassofactoriag
tomes winch you mentioadd, sad that she falll.g of woe to
the amount Of shout afters per cent.?—Oat 11120, as com-
pared with ISIS, it Isla about aroma percent.; it was asst so
much as that is owe year.
Tu what do you attribute this dimiaation is the mmemisop-
lion of meat ?—I thiek it may sot improbably be ascribed
to different camel; *we to souse largesse of ecosoasy in the
middle classes of society; bet I should thiok It is mainly
owing to the vast of cattle is this country, because it ap-
pear. 1.1 me, that the prier of iseatitas bee. better support-
ed than almost say thisig else. If it hod bees tidied, from
the falling off is the toosomptioei, sad tbat the ordisery
Mork of cattle bad remained io she country, 1 should thigh,
ma sutler of C 0.,.,, cattle would have talks as mock as
say thing eke, which don sot appear to be the ease. lam
1014 that in our part of 'be country cattle are very scarce.
Has she pries of meat bees tolerably steady last year at
Liverpool ?—Tlee pries of mist fell a haffposay a pound last
year at Liverpool.
What is meat selling at, at Liverpool, sow ?-..Seven-peso
Issifpeasy • pound.
Do you speak of the retail price, or wholesale, is Hot
market ?—The retail price.
Is there soy decrease is the population of Liverpool !-4
should think as increase.
&nee obeli ?—I am of the *pinks, lot it is only opinion,
that them has bora so atonal increase he Liverpool, and
Mill going 00.
If there is as must increase of population, and no di-
minution of wages, cam you account for how there can be
a diminishes so the einessemptioa of meat !—Botcher. meat
Maude higher, sentreliog to the average proportion of valor,
as compared wish wheat; meat stands at 75, while wheat
'toads at 54, therefore the labourer has a womb greeter in.
demesnes' to consume wheat Blau meat ; be is obtaining a
larger proportion of it for the same money.
Are you pripmed to state that there is an increased COll-
- of wheat la Liverpool ?—1 thiuk so ; with a di-
miiretion is the quantity of animal food, though there will
be am increased grorth of wheat, there must be also an in-
creased consumption of it.
Is there net a disposition oa the part of the pepolstios of
this country, and particularly of the manufacturing districts,
to bay meat whenever they can offend it, he preference to
heists entirely on breed should antaiely shirk Mere
wits sod that it would be preferred, as matter of choice.
Then is not the living on bread pro tarn), a sign of
poverty N—No, I do not think absolutely so; because she
relative value of the one to the other may induce preference
as matter of interest. The price of bread Wry be so much
ebeaper than meat that the pour, ea matter of ecosomy, will
prefer citing. bread corn.
Do you know of any bonded or warehoused corn having
hero brought into the market illegally at Liverpool
antler do I think it to have been the case.
Do you think, tinder the present law, it can be smuggled
out ?—I think it possibly might be amoggkd not, but that
the character of the metalled@ would prevent it.
If corn is warehoused under the Act of iBl5, is it regu-
larly measured when it is deposited is the warehouse% ?—1
believe it is.
By the Custom-boase officer?—l believe it is ; hut lam
not certain whether great care is taken, when the lucks ale
Wien uS, to measure it out again.
There in no inducement of payment, Or duty on warehons.
ing, to make the Custom-house officer see that it is regularly
measured on going in and coming oat ; she mews-
sity of turtling grain sod interfering with it dues lay it Inure
opeis tbs. soy thing else, but I believe nu such tiling has
bees dose al Liverpool.
Slate so she committee, ohne ems is warehoused at Li-
verpool, ander whose custody it is placed?—The Comeu's.
Eschseively
lies snot she merchant a cosine' !-.-Tbe °Naomi have owe
lock, and she overtime' another; the ciao is deposited is

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