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bly procec<5s from both. Tlie efft-(5^, however, is rational an<1 ne.-ef- 

 fary for the times. Yet if the rife upon barley proceeds from a Icffcned 

 crop, on the jdea of a want of demauci, owing to the high duty on 

 irah. It is an evil which will afTt^t tHe proorrefs of improveraci.t in ac;ri- 

 cuhure, and alfo lelfen the animal food produced upon improved 

 pjrounds. Padnres laid down with barley, it is well known, will yield 

 more growth than when fown with any other corn. 



Turnips have become a better crop than they appeared to be in 

 July. From beinor generally later fown, they arc not fo large, but are 

 ilill growing, and will do fo for fome weeks, if frefh weather conti- 

 nues. They will have the advantage of (landing more froft than the 

 early fown crops. The fields injured by the caterpillar in July reco- 

 vered in a great degree. Thofe ate wholly except the fibres, (liot one 

 again, and have grown turnips, ufeful, though not fo large as they 

 would have been. Swedifh turnip feems to be increafed in quantity. 

 Still tUe farmers do not attend to fow \o early as the beginning of June, 

 which is neceflary. 



The demand for cattle has been rather better the lafl two months ; 

 hut it appears that many of thofe carried to the fouth have not 

 met with a ready market ; and in what ftate the dealers to the jar 

 fouthy as they are called, will return to their winter quarters, is itiil 

 doubtful. Draught ewes have gone off without diflicuhy, and v.'ithout 

 diminution of prices. And notwlthftanding the high price of wool, 



the Moorland fheep keep fully up with the Cheviot or long breed. 



Oa, 27. 



Berwichjlnre ^mrterly Report. 



Our harveil, which commenced in the laft week of Auguft, was fa- 

 voured with a traft of fine feafonable weather ; and, excepting beans, 

 fome of which were but recently carried, the crop was all fecured by 

 the loth of Oftober in excellent condition. 



Wheat is a good average crop, though the quality Is inferior to that 

 of lad year. Barley was this year cultivated on a very circurnfcribed 

 fcale, in confequence of the duU fale it experienced thefe two years 

 pail ; and the produce is but middling. The oat crop is deficient in 

 bulk, and rather fmall in the grain ; but as a good deal of land, for- 

 merlv allotted to barley, was occupied by this grain, and as the hill 

 diftrid was all harvefled in good order, the aggregate return in this 

 county may be reckoned nearly equal to that of ordinary years. Pv^as 

 are an abundant crop. Beans are alfo produdive ; but the w^et feed- 

 time occafioned their being fown to a much fmaller extent than ufual. 



Turnips have improven greatly fince the beginning of harvell, ancl 

 ^r.ay now be reckoned a full crop ; but the demand has been fo liinited, 

 that the letting price (per acre) is not yet properly afcertained. Young 

 clovers are luxuriant, and palturage has all along been frcHi and gocd ; 

 but the foggage or aftermath, from a general deficiency of clover, has 

 j30t made a great appearance. 



We have feldom experienced a more favourable fummer for prcparinc^ 

 1 i 3 ^ic 



