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Agricultural hitelTigencc — England, Nor. 



tlemens' grieve?, for their maRer's table?. The grain market looks up 

 here. I have fold my wheat at 29s. per bolL Good barley is 2 2Sv 



23s. to 24*^. ' 



ENGL A N D. 

 Norihuviberland ^larterly Report. 



The weather, for tlie laft quarter, has in g-enerai been favourable for 

 the purpofes of agriculture. Two frofty nij^hts, in the latter end of Ju- 

 ly, cane very opportunely far deilroying tlie black caterpillars, which 

 wfie making great ravages amongft the young tur.itpt ; thefe frofts 

 were fucceedcd by fome rains in the beginning of Aui:;uit ; after vi'hich, 

 the weather was (with few exceptions) uniformly dry, and, of courfe, 

 the harveil has been remarkably fine, and the crops carried in the moil 

 defireable llate. 



It was obferved in the lafl: report, that the wheat crop had the ap- 

 pearance of being thin, which, on reaping, has proved even worfe than 

 was then apprehended : and attended with the fmgular clrcuraftance, of 

 bdng nioilly lodged, though the crop was ever fo thin, and rufted, or 

 cankered in the flraw ; a difeafe which prevents the grains from receiv- 

 ing their proper nouriihment, and makes them fkinny and fmall ; the 

 confequence i?, that a good fample of new vrheat is rarely to be feen, 

 and is everywhere very inferior to the produce of lalt year, in this di- 

 ilridl, the wheat crop may be fafely llated to be confiderably below am 

 average ; and, in the county of Durham, matters are llill worfe. 



The crops of barley on dry lands were abundant ; but on ftrong 

 loams, and moift foils, very thin ; and, from the low price at which 

 this grain was fold laft year, lands that would have been appropriated 

 to barley, were fown with other kinds of grain, which occafions the 

 quantity in this county to be much below the average produce of other 

 yenrs. 



Oats sre in general a fair average crop. Beans and peas were never 

 known better, and are confiderably above an average. 



The turnip crop on dry lands is remarkably good : the plants that 

 had their leaves eaten off with the black caterpillar, revived by the rains 

 and fucceeding warmth in Auguft ; and are now fcarcely to be diftin- 

 ^uifhed from thofe that efcaped the ravages of this reptile. * Upon 



fome 



* In yotir laft Yorkftiire report, it is ftated, that * probably fome at- 

 tfnt'wn to VagQ^s method of night-rollirg might have been benejicial. ' On 

 thi? 1 muft beg leave to obferve, that night-rolling was not an original 

 invention of Mr Vagg : the merit (if it hns any) is due to Mr Ellis, 

 uho pradlifcd and publiilied it many years before Mr Vagg offered it at 

 fecond haiid to the public, and enriched himfelf, by pretending to di- 

 vulge a fecret for deltroying the tiirmp fy ; hut which turned out to be 

 theyZr/^, which every reader of Ellis had long ken acquainlt^d iviih- 



