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On The Causes Of The High Price Of Corn.
ON THE CAUSES OF THE HIGH PRICE OF CORN .
For the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
Mn . EDITOR , TOURING the present exorbitant price of that first necessary of ¦ " - ^ life , Corn , every observation relative to the subject becomes of importance : I have , therefore , according to the best of my judgment , sent you some loose and general thoughts on what , in my opinion , is the source and ori ginal cause from whence the evil , has sprung .
Mr . Roiline , in his Ancient History , informs us , that Lycurgus , the great Spartan legislator , upon his entering into the administration of his government , observing that the lands were monopolized into a few ha / ids , who grew extremely wealthy , while the rest of the people were labouring under great distress and poverty , made it his first care to order , that an equal distribution of lands should be made , that there
might be employment and encouragement to industry for numbers , who at that time were but slaves and vassals to those engrossers ; and we find , according to his account , that in a few years the lands became better cultivated , the country vastly more populous , and the state reaped great benefit from this new regulation . The engrossing of farms in this kingdom , particularly in the com counties , is a practice which has greatly obtained of late years ; and
it is generally thought , that the land stewards have been , in a great measure , instrumental to it , as they have thereby had an opportunity of serving themselves , * their relations , or friends : but whether the . landed gentlemen themselves will be gainers by it in the end , time will shew . It is the opinion of many sensible and judicious farmers , that gentlemen do not take the most effectual method to improve their lauds
, by putting such great quantities into one man ' s hands to ocenpv ; because it is impossible , as they say , for one man to cultivate , to . so great advantage , two or three thousand acres of arable and pasture land , as it might be done by seven or ei ght , who , ' by making a far greater quantity of manure of all sorts , and attending more closely to the most minute circumstances of improvementand raising and producing
, all sorts of the necessaries of life for the weekly markets , might be more advantageous tenants , and better husbandmen . However , this 1 think , a' man may venture to foretel , that if the practice of throwing down ' the . small and middling farms , and taking in the commons , should continue for twenty years to come , as it has for fifteen or twenty years past , half the shops in the maiket towns
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On The Causes Of The High Price Of Corn.
ON THE CAUSES OF THE HIGH PRICE OF CORN .
For the FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
Mn . EDITOR , TOURING the present exorbitant price of that first necessary of ¦ " - ^ life , Corn , every observation relative to the subject becomes of importance : I have , therefore , according to the best of my judgment , sent you some loose and general thoughts on what , in my opinion , is the source and ori ginal cause from whence the evil , has sprung .
Mr . Roiline , in his Ancient History , informs us , that Lycurgus , the great Spartan legislator , upon his entering into the administration of his government , observing that the lands were monopolized into a few ha / ids , who grew extremely wealthy , while the rest of the people were labouring under great distress and poverty , made it his first care to order , that an equal distribution of lands should be made , that there
might be employment and encouragement to industry for numbers , who at that time were but slaves and vassals to those engrossers ; and we find , according to his account , that in a few years the lands became better cultivated , the country vastly more populous , and the state reaped great benefit from this new regulation . The engrossing of farms in this kingdom , particularly in the com counties , is a practice which has greatly obtained of late years ; and
it is generally thought , that the land stewards have been , in a great measure , instrumental to it , as they have thereby had an opportunity of serving themselves , * their relations , or friends : but whether the . landed gentlemen themselves will be gainers by it in the end , time will shew . It is the opinion of many sensible and judicious farmers , that gentlemen do not take the most effectual method to improve their lauds
, by putting such great quantities into one man ' s hands to ocenpv ; because it is impossible , as they say , for one man to cultivate , to . so great advantage , two or three thousand acres of arable and pasture land , as it might be done by seven or ei ght , who , ' by making a far greater quantity of manure of all sorts , and attending more closely to the most minute circumstances of improvementand raising and producing
, all sorts of the necessaries of life for the weekly markets , might be more advantageous tenants , and better husbandmen . However , this 1 think , a' man may venture to foretel , that if the practice of throwing down ' the . small and middling farms , and taking in the commons , should continue for twenty years to come , as it has for fifteen or twenty years past , half the shops in the maiket towns