j^fy^^ AgYicuIiural InieUlgcnce. i^ov.. 



Beans, a very important article in many diftricls, were gi-eatly 

 Hunted by the drought •, andi in many places, will yield a poor 

 return to the farmer. On light foils, they were necefr.-.rily bad -y 

 on clays, when mixed with peas, they were tolerable ; but on 

 deep loams, though of Icfs bulk than ufual, the produce will not 

 be materially defecliive. Tliough the grain is ratlier fmall, the 

 weight exceeds that of laft year y and being fully ripened, and 

 well harv-elted, it is to be hoped that the deficiency v/ill be in- 

 confiderable. 



To turnips and potatoes the dry weather has proved remark- 

 :ibly unfavourable. The plants of the former, at one period, pro- 

 mifed a plentiful return ; but we are forry to fay, that in few in- 

 jtances have previous expectations been realized. Attacked in 

 the front by the caterpillar, and in the rear by the worm, a more 

 general deilruftion has enfued than perhaps was ever known. 

 Potatoes have alfo fuffered much, and cannot be rated as exceed- 

 ing half of an ordinary crop. Culinary vegetables, of every kind, 

 were m.uch retarded in their grov/th, and threaten to prove fcarce 

 articles in the after months. 



The grain markets during the quarter, have, on the whole, 

 maintained a kind of equability, though oats, in the courfe of 

 autumn, rofe rapidly in price. From the quantity of wheat and 

 oats imported during the year, it is evident, that the laft crop, 

 though confefTedly good, v/as unequal to the general demand ; 

 which fubftantiates what we have uniformly maintained, that the 

 confumption of Britain requires an additional quantity of culti- 

 vated land. Exilling circumilances have occafioncd of late a great 

 quantity of grain to be thrown into the market -, but the truth of 

 our doctrine will perhaps be fufiiciently afcertained before next 

 autumn arrives, unlefs events fhould take place (perhaps more 

 feared than necelTary), which would at once throw trade of every 

 kind out of its common courfe, and fo prevent any jull conclu- 

 Hon being drawn. Indeed we have heard meafures recommend- 

 ed, that would ruin numberlefs int;ividuals.. and fubjc£l the coun- 

 try to famine, or at leafh to dearth at an after period. \\^ithout 

 defcending to particulars we ihall only fay, that feveral of thefc 

 meafures are injudicious, fome of them impracticable, and others^ 

 if executed, would throw nhe improvement of the country a cen- 

 tury backward. Supplies can always be commanded by a fu- 

 perior force, and thofe who are mailers of the field will never 

 want provifions while fuch are to be found in the country. 



This has been an unfavourable feafon to the graziers, as the 

 beft paflure lands rarely afforded a full bite. Stock was purchafed 

 at high prices, and, latterly, fat cattle have rather depreifed in va-^ 

 lue, and flieep flill more fo -, all \\ hich things mud m.;ke the trade 

 SI bad one.- Lt^im (lock of all forts, particularly (beep, are looking 



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