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Tables, shewing, both in Scots and sterling money, the price of any quantity of grain, &c. from one lippy, or one fourth part of a peck, to a thousand bolls at all the various prices, from L. 3 Scots, or 5 s. Sterling to L. 18 Scots or 30 s. Sterling, each table advancing by 1 s. Scots or 1 d. Sterling per boll; and also at L. 3: 3: 4, L. 3: 6: 8, L. 3: 13: 4, and L. 3: 16: 8, up to L. 12 Scots per boll, and from 4 1/2 to 18 merks, (the prices at which grain is sold in Scotland): With Rules and Examples to make them answer for calculating the price of all sorts of goods sold by Number, Weight, or Measure. Also, Tables, shewing the Price of any number of stones of Hay, loads of Coals, &c. from one to ten thousand, from 3 d. to 1 s. Sterling the stone, load, &c. each Table advancing one farthing. Very useful for Noblemen and Gentlemen, and their Factors; for Farmers, Brewers, and Bakers; and for Merchants and Shopkeepers. By John Thomson Writer in Edinburgh. Together with, A Table reducing English bushels and quarters to the Edinburgh standards or Linlithgow measure, and a Table for reducing the price of the English quarter to the price of the Scots boll of barley or oats, wheat or pease; A comparison of the weights and measures of Scotland with those of England, as regulated by the statutes of both kingdoms now in force; and, Tables of English weights and measures. A new edition, much enlarged.
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Pictures
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West Indian sugar-growers making gin for the British market at the expense of Scottish grain farmers. Aquatint by Samuel de Wilde, 1808.
De Wilde, Samuel, 1751-1832.Date: [1 July 1808]Reference: 38477i- Books
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A dissertation on the policy of grain, with a view to a plan for preventing scarcity, or exorbitant prices in the common markets of England. By the late Sir James Steuart, Baronet, Author of the Political Oeconomy. Published by his son.
Steuart, James, Sir, 1712-1780.Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]- Books
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By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, a proclamation. Devonshire. Whereas the extreme severity of this season, may occasion a scarcity of corn and grain in this kingdom: and the exportation of corn, grain and meal, may at this juncture be prejudicial to the poor inhabitants of this kingdom.
Ireland. Lord Lieutenant (1737-1745 : Devonshire)Date: 1739- Books
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The farmer and corn-dealer's assistant; or, the knowledge of weights and measures made easy, by a variety of tables. ... To which are added, tables of all the fiars [sic] in Scotland for twenty-one years from 1756, ... Also, an extract from the Custom-house books of the annual exports and imports of grain in Scotland from the year 1707 to 1777. By Alexander Bald, ...
Bald, Alexander.Date: 1780- Books
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Food-grains of India / by A.H. Church.
Church, A. H. (Arthur Herbert), 1834-1915.Date: 1886- Books
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The corn-dealer's companion, being new tables shewing exactly the price of any quantity of corn or grain, ... By R. B. Gent.
Blackwell, Robert, gent.Date: 1726- Books
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Short sketch of temporary regulations (until better shall be proposed) for the intended settlement on the grain coast of Africa, near Sierra Leona.
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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A short sketch of temporary regulations (until better shall be proposed) for the intended settlement on the grain coast of Africa, near Sierra Leona.
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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Remarks on the deficiency of grain, occasioned by the bad harvest of 1799; on the means of present relief, and of future plenty. With an appendix, Containing Accounts of all Corn Imported and Exported, With the Prices from 1697 to the 10th October 1800; and also Several Other Tables. By John, Lord Sheffield.
Sheffield, John Holroyd, Earl of, 1735-1821.Date: [1800]-01- Books
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Food-grains of India / by A.H. Church.
Church, A. H. (Arthur Herbert), 1834-1915.Date: 1886- Pictures
The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus commands Psyche to separate a pile of mixed grains into different piles of each type of grain.. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.Date: [between 1500 and 1599]Reference: 2945724i- Pictures
The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus commands Psyche to separate a pile of mixed grains into different piles of each type of grain.. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.Date: [between 1500 and 1599]Reference: 2944967i- Pictures
The story of Cupid and Psyche: Venus commands Psyche to separate a pile of mixed grains into different piles of each type of grain.. Engraving by the Master of the Die, 15--, after M. Coxie, 153-.
Coxcie, Michel, 1499-1592.Date: [between 1500 and 1599]Reference: 2950105i- Books
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An Act to prohibit, for a time therein limited, the exportation of corn, grain (rice excepted) meal, malt, flour, bread, biscuit, starch, beef, pork, and bacon.
Great Britain.Date: 1740 [i.e. 1741]]- Books
The entomology of radiation disinfestation of grain : a collection of original research papers / edited by P.B. Cornwell ; with a foreword by H. Seligman.
Date: [1965]- Books
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An Act to ascertain the custom payable for corn and grain imported; for better ascertaining the price and quantity of corn and grain, for which a bounty is payable upon exportation; for appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament; and for giving further time to clerks and apprentices to pay duties omitted to be paid for their indentures and contracts.
Great Britain.Date: 1729]- Books
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Transactions in Parliament, in the session of 1795, on the apprehension of a famine! Being prefatory to an account of the causes of the scarcity and high price of grain in the years 1795 and 1796, and of the rapid advance of the price of wheat in the autumn of 1797. Commencing with His Majesty's Most Gracious speech on that subject.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: Printed in the year 1798- Pictures
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A servant holds a parrot in a cage with one hand while the other is immersed in a bowl of grain (?). Watercolour by an Indian artist.
Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 576520i- Pictures
China during the Cultural Revolution: workers on a farm gathering wheat for the people, and a woman ensuring that not a single grain is wasted. Colour lithograph, 1974.
Date: October 1974Reference: 661319i- Books
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Observations upon the important object of preserving wheat and other grain from vermin, with a safe and efficacious method to prevent the great depredations that are made on those valuable articles. Containing also, some cursory remarks on the national advantage arising from our export corn laws, and proving that the same happy consequences must be derived from the inclosure of our forests, common fields, and waste lands; with a calculation annexed, demonstrating the great savings which may accrue from the use of the patent artificial slate-frames, on hay stacks, by Sir James Wright, Bart. dedicated by permission to His Majesty.
Wright, James, Sir, -1803.Date: 1796- Books
The new milks : 100-plus dairy-free recipes for making and cooking with soy, nut, seed, grain, and coconut milks / Dina Cheney ; photography by Sabra Krock.
Cheney, DinaDate: 2016- Books
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An estimate relating to gleaning. Co. Camb. Par. G-r. 1787 880 acres of all sorts of grain, produced to 40 families, gleaning fairly and unexceptionably, viz. half a Bushel per acre 400 Bushels 400 bushels, at the Average of 4s. a Bushel-is - 80l. Perhaps, with the Straw and chaff, and a little higher Average, as a very Sensible Miller and Farmer there said; the whole of the Gleanings might be worth 100l.
Cambridgeshire (England)Date: 1790?]- Books
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Strictures on the true cause of the present alarming scarcity of grain and other provisions; and a plan for permanent relief: humbly submitted to Public Consideration, by Alexander Annesley. With an Historical Deduction of the prices of provisions. Interspersed with various matters connected with the Commerce and Navigation of Great Britain. Together with a Chronological account of the several Statutes, Proclamations, and Parliamentary Regulations, For controuling the Markets, And preventing Monopoly, Engrossing, &c. &c. From the Norman Conquest to the present Aera. Dedicated to the right honourable William Pitt, chancellor of the exchequer.
Annesley, Alexander, -1813.Date: 1800- Books
The "Sunic" intensifying screen : gives maximum reduction in exposure invisible grain correct gradation the fastest and most reliable intensifying screen yet produced / Watson & Sons (Electro-Medical) Ltd.
Watson & Sons (Electro-Medical Ltd)Date: [1919?]