Acres. Bushels Produce,
per acre. quarters.

Wheat 3,416,750 27 11,531,531
Barley 1,416,750 38 6,729,562
Oats and rye 2,000,000 44 11,000,000
Clover and seeds 2,277,750
Beans and peas 1,139,000 30 4,271,250
Turnips, marigolds, & potatoes 2,116,750
Rape and fallow 1,300,000

Davenant, at the end of the seventeenth century, made the following
estimate showing the importance of wool in English trade[762]:--

Annual income of England L43,000,000
Yearly rent of land 10,000,000
Value of wool shorn yearly 2,000,000
" woollen manufactures 10,000,000

Thus the rents of land formed nearly one-fourth the total income of
the country, and wool paid one-fifth of the rents.[763]

In the eighteenth century a great quantity of wool was smuggled out
of England in defiance of the law; in the space of four months in
1754, 4,000 tods was 'run' into Boulogne.[764]

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL WOOL
IMPORTED INTO ENGLAND.[765]

lb.

1766 1,926,000
1771 1,829,000
1780 323,000
1790 2,582,000
1800 8,609,000
1810 10,914,000
1820 9,775,000
1830 32,305,000
1840 49,436,000
1850 74,326,000
1855 99,300,000
1857 127,390,000

PRICES OF LABOUR IN SURREY IN 1780.[766]

s. d.

Day labourer, per day, in winter 1 4
" " in summer 1 6
Reaping wheat, per acre 7 0
" " and according to the crop up to 12 0
Mowing barley, per acre 2 6
" oats, " 1s. 6d. to 2 0
" grass " 2 6
Hand-hoeing turnips, per acre, first time 6 0
" " second time 4 0
Thatching hayricks, per square of 100 ft. 1 0
Washing and shearing sheep, per score 3 0
Ploughing light land, per ac