A Short History of English Agriculture

by W. H. R. Curtler

[538] Transactions of the Devon Association, xxix. 291-349.

[539] Average annual prices of wheat were: 1812, 126s. 6d.; 1813, 109s. 9d.; 1814, 74s. 4d.; 1815, 65s. 7d.

[540] Porter, Progress of the Nation, p. 149.

[541] A Defence of the Farmers and Landowners of Great Britain (1814), p. 49.

[542] Ibid. p. x.

[543] Ibid. p. 7.

[544] Agricultural State of the Kingdom, p. 67.

[545] Parliamentary Reports (Committees), v. 72.

[546] Thoughts on the Present Depressed State of the Agricultural Interest (1817), p. 4.

[547] Duncumb, General View of the Agriculture of Hereford, 1805. The writer of A Defence of the Farmers and Landowners of Great Britain (1814) puts the average crop of wheat in the United Kingdom at 15 or 16 bushels an acre, p. 28. A very low estimate.