Il6 Agricultural InteUi^eiicc — England Jan< 



The prizs-ox purchafed on Monday laft, at the great price of 

 lOO guineaa, was exhibited to pubhc infpeftion in Fleet-Market. 

 He was ied in Buckinghannfhirc, and weighs nearly 300 ftones, is 

 8 feet 1 1 inches long, 6 feet 7 inches high, and lo feet 4 inches 

 round the girth. At the Smithficld fliew of cattle, he gained the 

 firft prize given by the Duke of Bedford and others. 



Smithfield has been remarkably well fupplicd this laft week with 

 Chrillnias beef, fome of which fold fo high as 7s. 6d. per ftone of 

 8 lib. One bullock was fo fat, that he fell down on Blackfriars- 

 bridge, where he was killed. Others were killed in the ftreets, be- 

 ing unable to walk to the place of their deftination. 



The (lievv of bullocks and fheep, was attended by the Duke of 

 Bedford, Lord Somerville, and other amateurs. The Prize Socie- 

 ty afterwards dined together : His Grace in the Chair. 



ExtraB of a Private Letter from a Man of Bufimfs in Londoriy 



dated Dscemler 23. 



I have had an opportunity, this day, of meeting with feveral 

 farmers, from the different counties round London, who attend our 

 market, and have received full Information concerning the flate of 

 their crops, and the forvvardnefs of their hufbandry, which 1 here- 

 with communicate. 



The crop of corn, in general, In the five counties of Middlefex, 

 EffeXj Hertford, Surry, and Kent, may be reckoned a fair average 

 of ordinary years, as to quantity ; but the quality of barley and 

 oats, from being late, is much inferior to what is ufually produced. 

 Wheat has been well got, and a great part is as fine as the growth 

 of any year. 



In MiddJefex — ^Wheat was well got, and of fine quality. Of bar- 

 ley, only a fmall proportion Is fit for malting. 



Effex — Part of wheat in the low country late, and not fo well 

 harvefted. Barley as before. ' 



Neriford— Wheats all well got. Barley generally damaged. 



Surry — Upon the high lands, all the crops well got ; but in the 

 low part of the country very badly. In fome cafes, pigs were turn- 

 ed out to eat the barley in the fields. 



Kent- — Wheat in good order and condition. Barley but mid- 

 dling. 



The oat crop in thofe counties was late, and Indifferently harvefl- 

 rA ; but the quantity of that grain fown Is but trifling. Beans, a 

 ;,: »)d crop ; but, from the wetnefs of the feafon, they are not fit for 

 kt till kiln-dried. 



The general weight of wheat of this crop is about ^6 lib. per 

 bufhe' : ordinary 54 lib. ; fome fine famples are 60 or 62 lib. — ■ 

 The produce of fine-plckled faraples, is nearly equal to laft year's 



growth : 



