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of a larger proportion of the pto;ltate of grain into
bread, than is alt prefent tiled, was Rated, by your
Committee in a former Report, as eiptal to an
addition of aeoasco quarters This Was calculat-
ed upon the confamption of nine Months in that
.part of the- country, which at protein confames
tither bread made of the fine flour, or °idle re-
maining produce of the grain after the fine flour
has been extraacd. As thil meafurc will not
take full effect till the beginning of February, the
Caving mutt now be calculated upon eight months
only. Your Committee have not thought the ex-1
yeriments, which it was poffible in Co Ikon a time
to make upon that Cubic& futficiently exalt to juf-
tify an alteration in the table of Alice, and were
defirous, for obvious reafons, to afford, in the firft
inflance, an eneoaragement to the Bakers, at lei&
equal, if not fupenor, to the profit they could
make in manufaauring Bread from fine Fleur, yet
they fee no reafon for departing from their former
opinion, that a larger quantity of bread will be pro-
duced from coarfe meal than from five flour ; and
they have therefore continued to eftimate the far-
ing upon that principl>. By this mode of drelling,
a -larger quantity of materials for bread will be
produced from all other fpecies of grain as well as
wheat ; and it is alfo probable that, in many parts
of the country where the wheat has been of good
quality and well barrelled, thewhole meal, includ-
ing the bran, will be madeinto Bread. Your Com-
mittee will not, however, attempt to animate the
additional faring which may be produced by thee
circumftances' and will only hate the increafed fup-
ply of food which may be derived from the adop-
tion of the meafure above referred to, as equal to
about 4.00,0c0 quarters.
It is ail! more difficult toellimate the advantages
to be expeaed from the economy introduced into
the confumption of private families, in confe-
quence of the high price of grain, and of his Ma-
jetty's Proclamation. Your Committee have fern
with fatisfaftion, the zeal and aaivity with which
the extcution of the falutary fyftem therein re-
commended, appears to have been undertaken by
various claffes of the community. Evert if the ope-
ration of this meafure fliould extend only to per-
fons in force degree of of the diminifhed con-
fumption of their families could not fail to produce
a conliderable effea. Suppofing this reduaion to
take place only in sso,ooo families containing ten
perfons in each family, and fuppofing that each per-
fon confirmed in ordinary times the large allow-
ance of a quarter of wheat annually, the Etving,.by
the reduaion of one third of their confunaption
(which -has been praaifed with the greateft facility
by fan:tics where other food is mid) would, in
nine months, amount to 140,000 quarters.
The prohibition of the ufe of new bread, which
Parliament has thought proper teenforce by addi-
tional regulations, mutt alfo be produaive of force
further alconomy. Although it cannot be oepe&ed
to make any difference in the confumption of theft
families, whole means of obtaining other food may'.
enable them to flint their allowance of Bread; yet,
among thole numerous dares of the community,
whole principal fubfiftence is derived from this ar-
ticle, and who can therefore make no dire& re-
trenchment, its effeas mull (till be contideraltle.
The faring to be expetted in the confnmption of
pats, is equally conjeaural ; but it may reafonably
be hoped, that the fame motives which will induce
his Majefty's fubjetts to rellrit the confumption of
wheat in their families, will operate Rill more
forcibly in reducing the expenditure of oats for
the fubfittence of horfes ; and that no (mall quan-
tity of this fpecies of grain will, in confequence, be
applicable to more ufeful purp3fes. It has been
further Rated to your Committee, that, by bruifing
oats, a great quantity of food for harks, in the
proportion of at kali four to three, may be pro-
duced from a given quantity of grain. By this,
and by other economical expedients, fuch as mix•
ing oats with chaff and bran, beans, or chopped
ftraw, the confumption of that article may be
much diminithed.

It fhonld be further obferved, that the crop of
barley this year has been, upon the whole, good,
and that more of it than ufual may, from the ex-
cellence of its quality, be applicable to bread ;
fome proportion of that grain may therefore pro-
bably be transferred to the ufe of thole parts of
the kingdom which ufually fubfifted upon wheat
alone, but which have of late returned to the con-
fumption of barley. Your Committee have no
means of ellimating the extent to which this re-
fource may be carried ; but it mull evidently
afford, in addition to the quantity above Rated,
fome further Alliance towards fupplying the defi-
ciency of Wheat.
Your Committee have, in their former Reports,
diretted the attention of the Houk to the great
fupply of excellent food which may be derived
from the Fifheries, and may render praCticable a
Bill further facing in the confumption of grain,
as well as of other articles of fubliitenee : every
encouragement which has been fuggefted by thole
belt acquainted with the fubjed, has been granted
by the liberality of Parliament, and the moll be-
neficial effe&s may be expeCted from the exertions
which that encouragement is likely to excite.—
From the eagerneii with which the (mall fupply
of Herrings which has hitherto reached the metro-
polis has been fought after, and from the number
of ordcrs which have been received from different
parts of the country, your Committee entertain no
doubt, that, as loon as that fupply can be increaf-
ed in quantity, and more widely diffufcd, this
fpecics of food will be rapidly introduced into ge-
neral eonfurnption.
In order to accelerate and facilitate this fitpAy,
advances have been made by Government to per-
font at the different ports of depot, fuch as Liver-
pool, Brillol, Hull, Lynn, Southampton, and
Exeter, in addition to the amount of private fnb-
fcriptions at theft places : and dirations have been
given to the relpeCtive Colleffors of the Cullom,
to attend to fuch applications as they may receive
from other places, which may be defirous of pro-
curing confignments of flub.
The extent and importance of the herring 6th-
ery has been already fully detailed to the houfe ;
and there kerns no realm to doubt that it will an-
fwer, in a very confiderable degree, tb: expsea-
ties: which wets formed slat.