Excerpt from Thoughts on the Most Safe and Effectual Mode of Relieving the Poor, During the Present Scarcity A general blight which attacked the crop of laft year and def'croyed one third of the growing ear, rendered the wheat harvefi: remarkably unproductive. But this is the only article of which there is any ground to apprehend an entire failure, for though its foarcity, has, in concurrence With other caufes, been the means of advancing the price of other provifions, thefe, by the aid of the late providential rains, are daily be coming more plentiful, and have already experienced a confiderable reduction of price. But the tardy advance of grain towards maturity will render it impofiible for us to partake of the growing produce of our corn fields for feveral weeks to come, and there is unfortunately too much reafon to fear that the flock of wheat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.