An account, fhewing the produce of one quarter of wheat, barley, oats, and rye, respectively, Ar account, fhewing the produce of one quarter of wheat, barley, oats, and rye, respectively, dreffed through a twenty-one filling cloth, and of the denomination of household flour, from which the loaves, prefented to a committee of the honourable Houfe of Commons on the 9th inftant, were manufactured, as specified in the accompanying Schedule. N. B. The feveral species of grain in thefe tables were British, and of the growth of the prefent year; and coft, on the 26th of October, 1795, viz-Wheat, 96s. per quarter-oats 29s. 6d.-barley, 38s.-rye, 5cs. 6d. At which time the middlings from wheat were worth 99s. per quarter of 10 bushels of 56 lb each; and the bran from ditto, 10s. per quarter of 16 bushels of 16 lb each. But the value of the middlings and bran produced from the other fpecies of grain, the Victualling Board are not of themselves competent to speak to. Victualling Office, Nov. 11, 1795. Bran. Victualling Office, 8th Dec. 1795. · An account, fhewing the produce of one quarter of wheat, barley, oats, rye, and Indian corn, refpectively, dreffed through a twenty-one fhilling sloth; prepared in purfuance of a letter from the Honourable Dudley Ryder, chairman of the corn committee of the Honourable Houfe of Commons, dated the 28th November laft. 350 254∞ 10 175 2 II 118 14 Indian corn 53 12 422 6 415 15 6 7 124 12 204 14 I 77 4 N. B. The feveral fpecies of grain (excepting the Indian corn) above-mentioned were British, and of the growth of the present year; and coft, on the 26th October 1795, viz.-Wheat, 998. per quarter-oats, 29s. 6d.-barley, 38s. - rye, os. 6d. - Indian corn, 46s. At which time the middlings from wheat were worth 969. per quarter of 10 bushels of 56 lb.-and the bran from ditto, 10s. per quarter of 16 bushels of 161b. But the value of the middlings and bran produced from the other fpecies of grain, the Victualling Board are not of themfelves competent to fpeak to. An account, fhewing the produce of 7 lb. (the ftipulated quantity for two quartern loaves) of fundry mixtures of grain, &c. directed to be baked into bread ;-fhewing the weight of dough made therefrom, the quantity required for making two quartern loaves, according to the cuftom of the town bakers, being 9 lb. 10 oz. or 4lb. 13 oz. each ;-the weight it turned out over or short thereof;—and the weight of the bread when taken out of the oven :-prepared in pursuance of a letter from the chairman of the corn committee, 28th Nov. last. FLOUR. DOUGH. BREAD. Weightallowed for Wt. after being Overor fhort ofthe Weight Wt. when making two quar properly mixed allowed. No. DESCRIPTIONS OF BREAD. tern loaves, at 3lb. with yeaft, falt, taken out Wt. when 8oz. each. and water. Over. Short. oven. cold. Copy of a Letter from Charles Dundas, q. to the Chairman of the Committee appointed to enquire into the bigh Price of Corn. SIR, AS many of the members, who have attended the committee appointed to inquire into the high price of corn, may vifit their conftituents during the Christmas recefs, I beg leave to call their attention to a fubject which I conceive does moft materially affect the fale of wheat, and to propofe a remedy for some part of the grievacces which are now complained of, meaning that our conftituents may be confulted, during the adjournment of parliament, on the practicability of adopting weight as a regulator of measure, which appears to me to be the only just criterion of the quality of corn. The By this, jobbing would be annihilated, and certainty would be established in the returns of your markets, and in the profits of the miller, mealman, and baker. At this inftant, notwithstanding the prevailing opinion, that the Winchefter bufhel is the legal ftandard, yet there does not exift a certain measure in the kingdom. bushel kept in the Exchequer is lefs than eight of the ftandard gallons there, the gallon lefs than four ftandard quarts, and the quart is more than two ftandard pints. The bufhel of queen Elizabeth, 1591, contains 2,124 cubical inches; the gallon of the fame date, 271 cubical inches, and the pint, dated 1602, 3416 cubical inches: Therefore the inequalities of your regulating standard meafures are as follow. Cubical inch. 13 Wm. III. c. 5. Round 18 inches. Diameter 8 inches 2,150 The ftandard bufhel in the Exchequer 2,124 Eight of the ftandard gallons 2,168 Thirty-two of the ftandard quarts Sixty-four of the ftandard pints 2,240 2,227 But this inequality of your ftandard measures is not the grievance of which I particularly complain; it is the uncertain practice of felling corn in the country markets by measures of various fizes, which is an evident fraud on the confumers of bread, and an advantage to none but the jobbers in corn, who, from practice, are as well acquainted with the fize of every farmer's bufhel as with his face. As the meafure varies almost every ten miles, the difference is a great encouragement to corn dealers, and the public are deceived by feeing in the Gazette the account of the prices of grain in different counties, which cannot be accurately collected, whilst the measures fo locally differ. In markets where certainty of measures is not ftrictly attended to, all averages must be falfe. In many, where the nine gallon measure is cuftomary, I have known measures of ten gallons, and, what is a fhameful fraud on the confumer gentlemen's bufhels of ten gallons and a half.-The dealers, knowing this, give an advanced price for the largeft meafures, confequently when the average of the market is ftruck, and a return made |