no Agricultural Intelligence — England. Jan. 



Farming, and planting wafte lands. Want of room prevents U3 

 from infcrtinjr the propofals in this Number, but ihcy (hall be given 

 in our next, to_a;ether with fame obfcrvations from a correfpondent. 

 Such a public fpirited cflab'"fhment dcferves every cncourafrement ; 

 and we trull it will meet with the fame liberal fupport as Sir John's 

 patriotic p'ans have hitherto experienced. 



ENGLAND. 



Doncajlcr, OiHober 23. — Our harveft is in a fad (late, mod of the 

 wheat and barley have been badly' carried in ; and as for the oats 

 and beans, they are too green to admit of an idea of ripening, 

 though they are cutting them in order to get them off the ground. 

 The Summer fallows are in a mofl wretched condition ; and much 

 of the flat land towards Hull is under water. Wheat is confidered 

 as the word of the grains ; and the general opinion is, that three 

 bufhels will not produce more flour than two did iaft year. 



Stafford, Nov. 4. — Thi: oldcft perfon in this coimty does not re- 

 member fuch a bad harveft ; many of my neighbours have not yet 

 finifhed, and what they have got in is moftly fpoilt. Upon the e- 

 ftate where my farm is fituated, we ufed to be all over by the end 

 of Augull ; and, this year, it was the middle of Oflober before we 

 got done. I had many acres of barley on the ground for two 

 months; and as it rained the moft part of the time, you may eafily 

 judge what condition it is in. Grain of every kind, that is good, 

 is now fold at moft extravagant prices. Laft market day, wheat 

 fold at 15s. per budiel, barley 7s. 6d., oats 6s., beans 12s. Our 

 meafure is 38 quarts to the budiel. 



The hay harveft was equally bad. 1 had one meadow of fine hay 

 carried off by the floods. Turnips have failed, which will be a bad 

 affair for ftock. 



Lincoln, Nov. 12. — The harveft in this county is nearly com- 

 pleted, and the prices of grain are rather lower than when I wrote 

 you laft. Oats are from 15s. to 34s. ; barley 303. to 44s. ; wheat 

 jOs. to 80s. ; beans 36s. to 483. per quarter of 8 ftrikes or Win- 

 chefter buihels. Our crops of wheat are much lighter than ufual, 

 and fo are oats ; but barley is tolerable, and may produce three 

 quarters per acre on an average ; beans about two quarters. Up- 

 on the xvhole, I think our crop is one third lefs than ufual. 



Turnips are but a i'mall crop, though full as good as previous ap- 

 pearances led us to expeft. Fat cattle reduced in price ; and beef 

 fells from 3s. 6d. to 5s. per ftone of 14 lb. avoirdupois, according 

 to quality. 



You may be affured every affiftance in my power will be given 

 to the Fanner's Magazine, which promifes to be an ufeful work. 

 The chief improvement pradlifed in this county is, embanking 

 dnd draining low lands, and marling or claying wild fands, or 



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