l8o4» Jigncuttural InteWgence — England. ?li|3 



The turnips have hoMcn out through the winter better than was 

 wpeded ; but are now all confumed, or nearly fo. Hay has been 

 at 7I. per ton ; was lately declining- fronn that price, till the prefent 

 Weak eall winds commenced, which, together with the backward ftate 

 of herbage, will confiderably favour its advance. All circumftancci 

 confidered, the lambs already drojipcd are as numerous and promifin<T 

 as could reafonably be expected ; perhaps, in number, there are more 

 than an average. 



Of courfe, nothing is done among- the fpring and fummer fallows. 

 The bed Wheat is about 7s. 9d. ; Barley, 3s. 6d. ; Oats, 3«. ; Beans, 

 5s. ; and Potatoes, 43. per bufliel of Winchefter. The price of the 

 lad article coniirms the autumn Report of the produce, where it is 

 fldted as a half crop. It may not be improper to obferve here, triat, 

 under many very unfavourable circumllancv-^s attending the prefent crilis, 

 the above are prices not very difcouragiog. They are, however, fuf- 

 ficicntly fo, to warn the indallrious and managing cultivator to raife his 

 grain produce at as little co(\ of labour of men and horfcs as he can pof* 

 fjbly contrive to do by the full (Iretch of his ingenuity and care. 



Fat Cattle and Sheep fell tolerably well ; Beef and Mutton, 7d. 

 per lib.; Veal, 8d. ; Butter, is. 3d. Lean cattle are confiderably lower 

 than laft year. The beft kind of horfes are rtill very dear ; yet reported 

 at the late fair at Doncader, 5. April, to he full 20 per cent. lower thart 

 laft year. The wages of farm and other labourers^ and of fervants m 

 general, are extravagantly high. 



The t?x upon properly has not been colledled in this diftrift as 

 yet, though daily expected to be demanded ; of courfe, no great 

 complaint is yet heard. It is txpedled to raife as much nearly as the 

 late income tax ; yet, no doubt, great advantage will be taken of 

 exemptions. The affeflbrs have had much trouble and anxiety about 

 the mode of rating the tax, in various cafes ; fuch as occupancy hf 

 proprietors ; tenants refufing to declare the real rent, Sic, &c. It i« 

 prefumed, that the real rack rent by the year has moflly been obtained i 

 when that could not be done from partial circumllances of fome pariOies 

 f)r townfliips, recourfe was had to the poors* rate, which was propor- 

 tioned to what was deemed a ratio tolerably fatisfa£tory to the commif- 

 fioners and others concerned, as far as can at prefent be known. The 

 value of laft year's rent was affumed as the taxable ratio of the rent by 

 the year ; and in fome cafes recourfe was had to aftual view and valua- 

 tion. This was where the poors' rate was raifed irregularly or un- 

 equally : e'^. gr. a nobleman's woods, &c. &c. have been nearly free 

 from the poors' and road taxes, while his valuable collieries have deftroy- 

 cd the roads. Thefe are genuine cbjeds of revaluation, April J2v 



Ldter from a Farmer in JVaks, j/pril i^h. 



* Wc have experienced a long winter, though, on the whole, not a 



fevere out. What frofts we had were moderate, with but little fnow ; 



and al'.hoiigh we had much wet weather, we had but few heavy rains. 



Our fpnng n late, ther^ being- but little appeaiancc of grafs at prefrtit. 



