[518] Northern Tour, iii. 49. Clarke also experimented on the effect of electricity on vegetables, electrifying turnips in boxes with the result that growth was quickened and weight increased.
[519] R.A.S.E. Journal, 1896, p, 93.
[520] Tooke, History of Prices, p. 182.
[521] Autobiography of A. Young, p. 256.
[522] State of the Poor, i. 565 et seq.; Thorold Rogers, Work and Wages, p. 487. It is difficult to calculate the exact income of the labourer; besides extras in harvest, and relief from the parish, he might have a small holding, or common rights, also payments in kind and the earnings of his wife and children.
[523] Hasbach, op. cit. p. 181; Eden, op. cit. li. 27.
[524] Imports of wheat and flour in 1796 were 879,200 quarters.
[525] Yet imports were comparatively large; 1,264,520 quarters of wheat, against 463,185 quarters in 1799.
[526] Tooke, History of Prices, p. 219.
[527] Farmer's Magazine, 1817, p. 60.