)! 1 2 ^Agricultural Intelligence — England. Jan. 



Northujnberland ^larterly Report. 



The failure of the wheat crop is general in this county ; and 

 moft of the famples that have been prefented at market, are not fo 

 good as the hinder end or light grain of laft year. The produce 

 per acre does not exceed one half of what it ought to be, and, in 

 many places, it is un found or fprouted. 



Barley, upon dry foils, is a tolerable crop ; but upon moift ones, 

 it periHied by two much wet. The maltfters complain that a great 

 deal of it will not malt. 



Oats, upon the vales or low grounds, are a medium crop. Up- 

 on the hills or moors, they are very bad ; never ripened, and are no- 

 thing but hulks. Many of them were ftill out in the laft week of 

 November and firft of December. Some ftill remain in the fields at 

 this date. 



Peas, abundance of ftraw, but little or no grain. 



Beans were very late, but would have been a medium crop, had 

 not the uncommon hard froft, on the 1 6th and 17th Odlober, in- 

 jured them. A field of beans, near Belford, is ftill to cut ; but the 

 generality were got in during the laft week of November. 



Turnips, upon good dry foils, are a fair crop. Upon moft foils, 

 very bad ; in many places, abfolutely worth nothing ; the confe- 

 quence of which is, that decent ones are letting from 7I. to 9I. per 

 acre. 



Our cabbages are fcarce any thing but leaves ; few of them have 

 a core much larger than a man's fift j the cold and wet entirely pre- 

 vented them from cabbaging. 



Of potatoes, that ftaff of life to the poor, the account I have to 

 give is ftill more melancholy. They have not only failed in pro- 

 duce, but are bad in quality, and are now felling at three times their 

 uf'Jal price. Many were damaged by the froft. 



The profpeft for next year, in my opinion, is ferlous and alarm- 

 iniT. In many places, fcarce an acre of wheat is fown upon the 

 Summer-fallows, nor likely now to be fown, unlefs a favourable fca- 

 fon happens in the month of February. 



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very little of either to be 



had. 

 The price of live ftock deprefled confiderably in 0<flober laft, but 

 fat is now getting up. Beef and Mutton 5|d. to 6d. per lb. avoir- 

 dupois, and expelled to be fcarce in the Spring. 



Lynn, Dec. 19. — The weather is now fet in feverely, but, of 

 }ate, it has been good, for the feafon of the year ; and the fowing 



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per bufhel Winchefter. 



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