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loamy grafs lands. Particulars cor.ccrning thefe improvements, I 

 ftiall fend you afterwards. 



Pontefra^i, Nov. i8. — Fat cattle have been plentiful for fome 

 time paft, and the markets dull ; but within thefe few days a con- 

 fiderable advance has taken place. They are felling now from 5s. 

 6d. to 8s. per ftone, finking the offal. Sheep not rotten, but a 

 great deal of them very poor. Our corn crops very Indifferent. 

 Wheat prefents a bad fample, being raoilly fprung. Barley and 

 pats no better, and all very deficient in quantity. Prices faft rif- 

 ing. On Saturday laft, old wheat fold here at 15s. per bufhel, new 

 I2S. 3d. Old oats 6s. 3d., new 4s. 3d. Barley 5s. 6d. Beans los- 

 A profpeft of bacon being very high ; at Malton, it fells, green, 

 at 6d, per lib. 



StaJ^ordy Nov. 30. — The weather, for this fortnight paft, has 

 been more favourable, and 1 have got my wheat feed completed ; 

 though many farmers round me, from the extreme wetncfs of their 

 lands, have not fown a bufhel. We have now begun to feed our 

 cattle on turnips, to fave the hay ; and they are turning out better 

 than 1 expected ; but, after all, they are not above half the fize 

 of lafl year's growth. Markets for grain ftill keep up. Seven- 

 teen (hillings per buffiel was afked at our laff market for new v/heat, 

 but none would give it. 1 hope it will foon be lower, though, I 

 affure you, this has been a moft trying and expenfive feafon to the 

 farmer. Cheefe has alfo rifen to an extravagant price, and the Go- 

 vernment faftors are bufily purchafing. Beef, mutton, and pork, 

 fell from 4d. to 4^d. per lb. 



Lynn, December 3. — Harvefl; here has been ill got, fome barley 

 ftill in the field ; but, generally fpcaking, the crop is fnppofed not 

 to be fo unproductive as was at firft expefted. Never was fo great 

 a difproportion known in prices as this year. Wheat fold yefler- 

 day from 64s. to lOOs. per quarter. Barley 28s. to 51s. Oats 18s. 

 to 383. No beans. The turnip crop has improved greatly of late, 

 and there is now favourable weather for fowing wheat. 



Wahefidd, Decejiiher 13 — Our markets for corn are very hi^h, 

 though they have rather declined for thefe tw^o weeks back ; but 

 unlefs we have a large importation from abroad, ifis the general 

 opinion they muft foon advance. The beft informed merchants 

 differ, whether any confiderable quantity of foreign grain can be 

 procured. One principal houfe in London writes in the affirma- 

 tive ; while another, equally refpeftable, gives a direct contrary 

 anfwer. Barley is fo much injured by the rains, that it will not 

 malt, which has caufed old malt to fell at 93. per bufhel. The 

 farmers are ftill fowing a little wheat, and a tolerable proportiop. 

 has been got into the ground ; but it has been harrowed fo ex- 

 tremely wet, that 1 fufpeft a large proportion will perifh. Prices 

 at our market this day — Wheat 70s. to 96s. Barley 35s, to 483, 

 Oats 38s. to 50s. Old beans 84s. 6d., all per quarter of 8 buOiels:. 



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