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AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



THE grand business of the autumnal season, wheat sowing, is drawing to- 

 wards a close, or rather may be said to have already closed, in even the 

 most backward parts of the country. With some exceptions, arising from 

 peculiar and local causes, and such must ever be expected, the wheat-seed 

 season of the present year may be unhesitatingly pronounced as one of the 

 most fortunate and successful. Indeed, a retrospect will show, that of late 

 years, in an especial manner, we have been fortunate in our wheat sowing, 

 and at the start, whatever may have resulted at the conclusion, that is to 

 say, at harvest. Our two last wheat harvests, indeed, have been wonder- 

 fully productive ; the state of the lands, of the climate, and the condition of 

 the generality of the farms considered. Want of money, so general among 

 the farmers, and according to all the reports from the country, greatly in- 

 creased and exaggerated at the present crisis, has hurried such quantities of 

 corn of every description to market, that we have now obtained satisfactory 

 evidence as to the various products of the late harvests, and find that our 

 early speculations, as to the quantities and condition of the crops, were not 

 very wide of the mark. Wheat, the most important, has also proved the 

 most plentiful crop, and is deemed a full average, the overplus on the best 

 lands making up the deficiency of the poor and least productive. As a draw- 

 back upon this piece of national good fortune, the condition of too great a 

 part of this splendid crop was lamentably deteriorated by the excesssive hurry 

 with which it was drawn from the field, in order to be turned into money ; 

 many who were not in distress for money, taking the same course, under 

 the apprehension of large imports from the Continent, which, however, 

 have not yet arrived. The wheat market has thus been greatly overstocked, 

 whilst the damp condition of the best wheat has greatly reduced the price, 

 the ordinary and lower samples being beat down below all proportion. 

 Some hopes are yet entertained in the country of a favourable rally in the 

 price of wheat, but that will materially depend on the quantity imported. 

 Oats have proved the next best crop, and clover seed, of which seed, indeed, 

 there is such a quantity in the country, that a resolution is announced of 

 petitioning Parliament to impose upon the article an additional and exclusive 

 duty, which will, no doubt, be stoutly opposed by the free trade party. 

 Barley is an average crop upon a few of the best lands only, in general far 



