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MONTH1Y MAGAZINE AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



COLD winds between the N. E. and E. S. E., with drought, and some slight frosts 

 have prevailed since our last, but, most fortunately, with little injury to vegetation ; 

 on the contrary, with beneficial effects, more especially in the facility obtained for 

 culture. The fruits also have been generally benefitted by this cause, so destruc- 

 tive in early seasons the present has kept them backward, and, granting seasonable 

 weather in due time, the fruit harvest may yet be great. The present state of 

 vegetation, at least in South Britain, is most remarkable, as an example of the risks 

 and casualties of farming. But a little month, and the tables are completely 

 turned upon us ! In our last, we were crying up the vast quantity of sheep 

 cattle food on hand, with the expectation of an early and abundant grass season. 

 Farmers were selling or giving away their turnips, and speculating on the best 

 mode of ridding themselves of their estimated superabundant stock of fodder. 

 What a reverse the long continuance of the easterly winds and consequent 

 drought, have chilled the grasses to the very root, and retarded their growth to such 

 a degree, as to ascertain a late, instead of an early season. Scarcely a spring bite 

 yet for the sheep and lambs, whereas in mid-winter, there was a full bite of grass 

 for an ox, and all kinds of cattle food, hay, turnips, or rather turnip tops, mangel 

 wurzel, &c. in high request, and at a considerable advanced price. The late 

 slight showers have had some good effect, but much more rain is indispensable to 

 any considerable degree of benefit. This ought to be a lesson to farmers in general, 

 perhaps the last people to render their courage suspected by taking timely warn- 

 ing. Swedish turnips, of such substantial quality, and such immense benefit in 

 the pinching time of latter spring, are no where grown in sufficient quantity, and 

 seldom drawn and stored, which they ought to be, as at that crisis an invaluable 

 resource ; should they not even be wanted as a general late spring food, stalled 

 cattle and horses would consume any residue. Where these are not cultivated, a 

 part of the common turnips should be drawn and stored. Such was the practice of 

 the ablest cultivators of fifty and sixty years past, with whom I fear, in these enlight- 

 ened times, we have few who can compete, in the essential points of husbandry. 



As to the state of the country, we will begin with the further and northern end 

 with Scotland, which, by some unaccountable decisions of fortune, has, during 

 many years, held up her head far higher in agricultural prosperity, than her great 

 and apparently more highly qualified southern neighbourhood. The tenantry of 

 Scotland, during a long series of years, have prospered under rents, the magnitude 

 of which have astonished us southern farmers. She has been free from the hor- 

 rible and savage calamity of midnight incendiarism, and her labouring classes 

 have preserved a state of contentment and submission to the necessities of the 

 times, unfortunately unknown, indeed impracticable to ours. She has been more 

 independent of the Continent for a supply of bread corn ; and, in general, farming 

 with her has been more remunerative than with us. Per Contra, and as her share 

 of the misfortune of the times, she has had to regret the considerable damage done 

 to her wheat crop, during the last three or four years of unfavourable seasons, by 



