ac6 Agricultural Intelligence — England. July 



a flrong clay j the continued celd weather injured it much ; in 

 many places, there will not be half -a crop. The field that you 

 faw laft Summer in fallow, near Moor Park' is fo very bad and, 

 thin, that beans have been planted upona E;reat part of it, to make 

 up the crop ; the other half of the field is this year under Summer- 

 fallow, and in as bad order as what you faw lail year. The beans 

 and peas, in general, promife to be an abundant crop, and the few 

 oats fown are good : little or no barley is grown in this county, 

 in Hertforddilre, the wheats, upon the whole, appear to be good, 

 and are much more forward than in Middlefex, being now all (hot 

 and in bloom •, while many of the Middlefex fields have the ear 

 flill locked up in the blade. In Surry, the wheats are good \ the 

 oats and barley alfo look well 5 and fevcral fields of rye are fo for- 

 ward, that if the prefent fine weather continues, we will not be long 

 in having new grain at market. The hiifbandry round the me- 

 tropolis, is much in the fame ftate as ufual at this time of the year. 

 In Middlefex, which I have had more opportunities of examining 

 than the other counties, the fallows are badly managed ^ they 

 don't appear to have been crofs-ploughed, and are fo full of couch, 

 that the furrows are as green as a corn crop in the month of March. 

 For three months paft, our markets have been advancing, notwith- 

 flanding the large importation of foreign grain 5 of late, the quan- 

 tity of fine Englifli wheat at market being fmall, and the qmlity 

 of the foreign being io indiiferent, that but a fmall proportion of 

 it can be mixed with the other in giinding, has occafioned fine 

 famples to advance confiderably. Good oats, from the iaraecaufe, 

 are iikewife advanced j while ordinary qualities, both of wheat and 

 oats, have a very dull fale. 



From the great demand from the north for the laft two months, 

 the prices of barley, hog peas and beans, have rifen confiderably. 

 Smithfield market has been well fupplied for the laft three months ; 

 but, owing to the great demand for the navy, &c. prices at times 

 Iiave been very high. Vegetables of every kind have been fold in 

 Covent Garden market for fix weeks paft j and, with green peas 

 and other vegetables, are now in abundance j as are alfo ftraw- 

 berries, cherries, and currants. The hay crop round London is 

 very good, and, having a fortnight of fine weather, a great part is 

 ^ot ftacked in excellent condition. The look of the hop vines in 

 Kent, at prefent, is unfavourable. The duty is only eftimated at 

 ijo,ocol., which, fome time ago, was thought mik^ht reach frora 

 250,0001. to 200,COoL 5 but if the fine weather continue, the crop 

 Hiay be confiderably better than what appearances indicate. 



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