1827.] Monthly Agricultural Report. 327 



stock. Vetches are expected to be a good crop. It seems a general fruit season. It 

 scarcely needs repetition, that all fat stock finds a ready sale and good price, with the 

 reverse of (he picture for lean stores, though sheep are said to have somewhat advanced, 

 and pig-stock sell readily and well. The dull and plentiful season for horses is at hand, 

 but the young and good seem to command a price at all seasons. It should be univer- 

 sally known that Mr. Coke, of Holkham, uses ox-teams with his horses ; an example well 

 worthy to be followed in those counties, where that most profitable practice is neg- 

 lected through mere prejudice and want of experience. On that topic reference may 

 advantageously be had to "The General Treatise on Cattle, the Ox, the Sheep, and 

 the Swine." Farmers complain let them then search out every mode of profitable re- 

 trenchment-, and it is submitted to them, whether a recourse to certain of those crops 

 beneficially cultivated by their fathers, in turn with corn crops, might not suit the 

 present posture of their affairs. 



It is observed universally, that "farmers were never more ready for harvest," and 

 thus far, it appears, there never was a more quick and favourable harvest. The fal- 

 lows, too, are in great forwardness (indeed upon lands where there ought to be no 

 fallows) and much manuring has been done. It is to be regretted, however, that foul 

 tilths are too general, and an immense breadth of land, perhaps in every county, is 

 wasted in growing weeds instead of corn. Ghosts, which so opportunely appeared in 

 former days, have unfortunately cut our acquaintance in these latter, now that the 

 appearance of old Jethro Tull is so much wanted j but however grave he might look 

 in viewing our luxuriant crops of couch, and lock, and thistle, and charlock, et id genus 

 omne, his reverend phiz would surely relax into a smile, at the felicitous idea of laying 

 salt, by hand, upon the heads, not the tails, of thistles! 



In the north of Scotland, reports of their crops are most favourable, indeed more so 

 than on their best soils, whence the accounts of the wheat crop are not so flattering. 

 They write of "a tulip-root disease" in oats, of which we in the south would thank 

 them for a description. The wheat crop in Ireland, and upon the continent generally, 

 is said to be abundant; the result to this country we shall without much doubt have an 

 opportunity to witness, in the course of the ensuing year. Much is said in the tone 

 of complaint, of the immense import of oats 3 but were they not wanted, they could not 

 be imported. 



Smithfield.Eeef, 4s. to 5s. Mutton, 3s. lOd. to 4s. lOd. Veal, 5s. to 5s. 8d. 

 Pork, 4s. 4d. to 5s. 8d. Lamb, 4s. 6d. to 5s. 2d. Raw fat, 2s. 5d. 



Corn Exchange.- Wheat, <50s. to 68s. Barley, 28s. to 36s. Oats, 19s. to 40s. 

 Bread, 9|d. the 4 Ib. loaf. Hay, 80s. to 120s. Clover ditto, 90s. to 150s. Straw, 

 36s. to 48s. 



Coals in the Pool, 29s. 6d. to 39s. per chaldron ; about J2s. addition for cartage, &c. 

 Middlesex, Aug. 27, 1827. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



Sugars. Since our last Report, the Sugar market has been daily advancing in prices. 

 Low Browns, 63s. to 64s. ; and finer qualities in proportion. The sales have been very 

 extensive as much as that 7000 hgds. have been sold in the course of four days and the 

 stock on hand greatly reduced. Refined Sugars are in such great demand, that there is not 

 at present a sufficient quantity in the market for the consumption ; and the price advanced 

 full 2s. per cent, since our last Report. 



Coffee. The quantity or St. Domingo Coffee lately brought forward for sale has been 

 very extensive. Jamaica Triage, 39s. to 50s. in bond ; good, 46s. to 50s.; fine, <50s. to 52s. 



Cotton. The Cotton market, both here and at Liverpool, remains very dull. Common 

 West-India, 6d. to 7d.per Ib.; Smyrna, 8d. to 9id. ; New Orleans, 6d. to 8^L ; Demarara, 

 7d. to 16d. 



Rum. The Government contract of 100,000 gallons has nearly cleared the market of 

 this description of Leward Island, which sells at 2s.2d. to 2s. 3d. per gallon. 



Brandy and Hollands. Little has been done in either, and the prices uncertain, and in 

 little or no demand. 



Flax, Hemp, and Tallow. The latter article has fallen in price, owing to the expecta- 

 tion of the arriv-al of large quantities exported from Russia, which have been purchased there 

 at favourable prices ; and there is no alteration in the prices of Flax and Hemp. 



Course of Foreign Exchange. Amsterdam, 12. 4. Rotterdam, 12,4. Hamburgh, 

 37. 1. Altona, 37. 8. Paris, 25. 80. Bordeaux, 25. 80. Frankfort on the Main, 



