124 \Agrjctt!turaI Lttelligetice — England, Feb. 



Calculate the deficiency of flour from every acre of wheat, and, as the 

 calamity is not confined to one, but extends itfelf over many ufually pro- 

 ductive diftridts, it muft prove a matter of furprize, that the price of 

 wheat has hitherto continued fo low, and is ftill, in the language of 

 Mark- Lane, * looking downwards. * 



The profits on arable and grazing lands, this year, will admit of no 

 companfon ; the grazier has been the only favoured agriculturiil. Hi» 

 profits murt have been confiderable ; for though he certainly bought 

 dear, he fold out of all proportion dearer. ^^''^« • i>« 



Northumhrland ^tarterly Report. 



The latter part of the year 1S03 was remarkable for the froft fctting 

 in fo early as the middle of November, and continuing till the nth 

 curt., with the exception of a few days in the latter end of November, 

 and beginning and end of December. The fnow was never in great 

 abundance ; the greateil quantities fell on the 5th and 6th December and 

 the 7th January, but did not exceed r8 Inches in depth on the plains 

 or low grounds. Since the froft ceafed, the weather has been mild and 

 frefli ; the grafs grounds were feldom feen with a more verdant appear- 

 ance, and the wheats arc looking remarkably well. 



From the above circumftances, the ploughing is not fo forward as it 

 ought to have been, and many clover leas and other grounds that were 

 intended to be opened before Chriftmas, are only now In hand. 



The markets for fat Hock have varied little through the winter ; the 

 prefent prices are, for beef, froai 7s. to 7s. 6d. per (tone (of 14 lib.) fink, 

 and for mutton from 7d. to 7-^d. per lib, fink. Our corn markets arc 

 very dull; wheat from 5s. 6d. to 6s. per bulhel ; barley 2S. 2d. to 23, 

 6d. ; oats 2s. 2d. to 2s. Sd. ; peafe 3s. 6d. to 4s. 



The price of barley being Icfs than the price of oats, has induced 

 many farmers to feed their horfes with the former, and \S\ the latter ; 

 as oats may be turned into money, but barley cannot be vended in thi« 

 dlllrldl at almoft any price. I^ this owing to a fuperabundant cro}) in 

 other diftrldts : (which is not the cafe here ;) or to the av!JItional dnty 

 on malt ? which tempts the confnmers of that article to fubditute lefs 

 pxpenfive, but probably more dangerous fubftances in its room. What- 

 ever may be the caulc, the confequence muft b^, that the farmer will 

 grow lefs of this grain, as he cannot afford to raife it at fuch reduced 

 prices, confidering the advanced rent of lands, additional taxes, aru-l the 

 great advance of labourers wage*?, which, in generrJ, are one third more, 

 and in fome places double, what they were ten years ago. 



Where artificers are to be em.ployed, their wages are even more 

 tlian doubled. Carpenters and mafons, who ufcd to work for nine 

 fninings a-week, advanced, about four years fiace, to fifteen, and lall 

 year iv> twenty-one JJ^iUir.gs per week. Such hfoh wages may be . fforded 

 by n^.mutac^^urtr.s, who are making thirty or forty per ant. of thc:r capi- 

 tal, or by undertakers of jobs ; but cannot be p;\:d by a farmer, wl'.o 



