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any preceding year, will render winter feeding of cattle of all kinds, both a comfortable and 

 profitable occupation, the public at large having its due share of the benefits. The turnip 

 crop, in the aggregate, is far greater and of better quality, than could, in months past, have 

 possibly been hoped and expected of it ; on the best lands it appears to equal that of the most 

 fruitful years. The Swedes which we have gone over, are of high promise ; but considering 

 the superior quality of that root, we have always regretted the comparative smallness of 

 the quantity cultivated. To those who can remember the original aversion of our farmers 

 to the very name of the ' wuzzelly-fuzzelly ' root, and the constant ridicule they poured on 

 all those who attempted to introduce it, it is pleasant to remark the change of opinion and 

 practice of themselves or their successors. The culture of mangel (mangold} wurtzel 

 has, at length, become the fancy, or hobby-horsical culture of the day ; with an admirable 

 concomitant, which, truly, we were not sanguine enough to expect that of drawing and 

 storing \\\c roots : for, be it known, that the difficulty has been equally great to induce a 

 farmer to be at the profitable labour and expense of drawing and storing his roots, as to 

 persuade him to cultivate the cramp-named beet. Three score years past, and during the 

 prevalence of the Tullian husbandry, our superior stock feeders, invariably, in winter 

 stored their turnips ; and, at that period, various articles were in profitable culture, of 

 which the very names have long since vanished from the country, the GOLDEN CKOP shut- 

 ting out all intruders. It will not be always so. 



The late change, from an extremely mild temperature, to frost of a considerable degree 

 of severity, will have a favourable effect in checking the too great luxuriance of the early 

 sown and forward wheats, and of impeding the operations of the slug and grub, which, 

 during their element, warmth and moisture, had already made, alarming havoc. Winter 

 tares, of which there never was a greater breadth in the country, cover the land well, and 

 have a most luxuriant appearance. Live stock, of every description, is in full autumnal 

 plenty, and, by consequence, somewhat lower in price, fat things included ; yet every thing, 

 fat or store, which is really good, meets a ready sale, more especially milch cows, in-calvers, 

 and pigs. Some considerable time must pass ere flesh meat can be cheap. Good cart 

 horses and cart colts find great prices, which must continue to be the case with good 

 horses of eveiy description, unless the present steam speculations for road carriage should 

 really take effect. The roads, Macadamized by our unfortunate ex-labourers, were never 

 before in so fine a condition. Great errors have been committed, indeed of the most ca- 

 lamitous and fatal tendency, on the subject of the labourers in husbandry. Perpetual 

 complaints are afloat cf the inequality of price in all agricultural produce, as a remunera- 

 tion to the grower ; on the other hand, the complaints of the consumer are equally loud 

 on the exorbitant price of all articles of the first necessity. On the whole, prices, however 

 inadequate, certainly bear a considerable figure, all circumstances, present and prospective, 

 considered. The squabbling and contention in the country, between buyer and seller, on 

 the scor^'of new and old measure, is almost as rational as legislation without compulsion. 

 It is not quite clear that any difference can result whether the corn be sold by the Impe- 

 rial or Winchester bushel, since the price must necessarily follow the bushel. By the 

 quantity of cold and rough handed wheats thrown upon the markets, it would seem that 

 the fine and dry, of which the quantity must have been great, are generally held. The 

 government and the maltsters having settled their affair amicably, and the latter appearing 

 in no great haste to commence for the season, argue any thing rather than a defective 

 stock of malt. There has been a considerable movement in the wool trade, but no great 

 advance of price an advantage, under present circumstances, not to be expected. Manu- 

 factures are reviving in all quarters. The crime of horse-stealing, through sufferance, has 

 actually become a settled trading concern in the country; and, but for its deplorable nature 

 and consequences, our apathy and tolerance would form a proper subject of ridicule. 



Smithfield.Beef, 3s. to 4s. 10d. Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 8d. Veal, 4s. to 6s. Pork, 4s. 6d. 

 (Dairy). -Raw fat, -2s. 6d. 



Corn Exchange. Wheat 42s. to 61s. Barley, 27s. to 36s. Oats, 18s. to 34.. 

 Bread, 9d. the 4 lb. loaf. Hay, 70s. to 105s. Clover 90s. to 125s. Straw, 28s. 

 to 36s. 



Coals in the Pool, 31s. to 40s. 6d, per chaldron. 

 Middlesex; Nov. 23, 1827. 



MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 



Sugar. The demand for Muscavadoes continues steady aud considerable. The averag* 

 of daily sales is 800 hogsheads, and prices are fully supported. The stock of Sugar to-day 

 is 15,930 hogsheads and tuns less than at the same period of time last yenr. The Refined 

 market has become rather hea\y at the closa. 



