49 S -Agricultural Int'eUigehce — England, Not^ 



Hay is about 4I. to 5 1, per ton. Fat cattle, fheep, and hogs, are at 

 moderate prices. Beef, yd. to 8d. Mutton and Pork, yd. Veal, 

 9d. Butter, is. 3d. per lib. Avoirdupois. 



On a review of the wliole year, it may be obferved that the commence-' 

 ment of it was marked by moll unfavourable circumllances of weather ; 

 by which the check to vegetation of all kinds was fo great, as abfo- 

 lutely to threaten the want of every thing necefiary to fupport the 

 Lve Hock ; confequently forage appeared rifmg to a price hitherto un- 

 lieard of. But the farmer (hould never dcfpair ; for fo fudden a burft 

 of growth as tliat which immediately fucceeded, was fcarcely ever be- 

 fore experienced ; and in one week, about the end of April, the face 

 of nature, as if by magic, was completely changed, and the ground 

 was clothed with the moft deliglitful verdure ; much more delightful, 

 as it fo much exceeded our utmoll hopes and expeclations. 



Since the above period, a moft promifnig afpeft of plenty of every 

 thing feemed unifonnly confpicuous, until the appearance of mildew 

 about the middle of Augull ; the caufe of wliich pernicious blaft to 

 our bed grain ought, in the opinion of the writer of thefe lines, to be 

 much more feduloully inveftigated than it has been, that perchance, if not 

 entirely dependent on phyfical caufes not at all within our reach, fome 

 remedy or palliative may be difcovercd. 



What may be more particularly inculcated in this review of the 

 pall feafon, in order to future improvements, is, that the fowing of all 

 kinds of grain ought to be performed as early as poffible ; the proper 

 flate of preparation by tillage a«d manuring being premifed, thefe be- 

 ing the only artificial means of an early harveft ; and alfo that the 

 reaping of grain, particularly of wheat, ought to be done in a much 

 greener flate than is generally praclifed. Thefe circumllances at- 

 tended to, would be produdlive 0/ the moll beneficial effects, both to 

 the quahty of the grain, and the eafe and fafety of harveiling, while 

 days are longer and weather drier than aftei-wards ; elFefts which have 

 been very convincingly olfered to the difcerning mind during the feafon 

 under review. It has certainly been within the obfervation of the 

 writer, that wheat fov/n as above, on late and backward foils, in the 

 laft week of September or firll of Odlober, has been reaped in a per- 

 fect flate the third week in Augufl ; while wheat fown {^c^steru paribus) 

 in the fecond week in November, was ill reaped in the third week of 

 October inftant, and the lofs by high winds almoll incalculable. Beans 

 alfo that were fown in the firil week of March have been houfed and 

 thraflied in the fecond or third week of September, while thofe fowi\ 

 in April are now in the fields, and fome of them uncut. Where the 

 reaping of mildewed wheat has been too long delayed, the effedl is very 

 remarkable ; that reaped in a green Hate affording a tolerable fample, 

 wliiki fome of that reaped dead ripe is fhrivclled up fo as to be fit for 

 nothfng but hogs and poultiy. 



Tlie prefent advance in wheat may be accounted for from the fup- 

 ply being inadequate to the demand ; from the effett of mildew and 



blafting, 



