358 Agricultural Intelligence — England, Julj 



The average Price of Corn, by the laft returns, is 



England. Scotland. 



Wheat, 126s. id. Wheat, 94?. 2d, 



Barley, 66s. 8d. Barley, 57s. 7d. 



Oats, 48s. 7d. Oats, 48.S. pd. 



Rye, 88s. 7d. Ry^> i5^- pd. 



Beans, 76s. 8d. Beat)<:, 83^. 6d. 



Peas, 79s. 8d. Peas, 87-;. id. 



Big, 56s. 6d. Big, 49s. 4d. 

 All per quarter, Winchefter. 



Oat-n:eal, perfackl n ^j Oat-meal per") cj 



of28ol>b. - j ^35- 7^' boll . J43^-S'J. 



There were imported, laft week, into London, 2*00 cwt. of ba- 

 con, 51 tons of beef, 15OC cwt. butter, io;o cwt. cheefe, 700 lb. 

 of hops, 1266 rjuarters of oats, 3188 quarters of wheat, 1984 lb, 

 Spanifli wool, 1650 cwt, rice, and 300 tons of pork. 



Extraft of a Letter from a Farmer in Wales ^ dated June 26. 



*' I was happy to receive a copy of the Farmer's Magazine, and 

 {hall be proud if any information, in my power to communicate, 

 contributes to promote fuch an ufeful publication. Something of 

 the kind is much wanted in this part of the kingdom, for we are 

 far behind in point of iniprovtment ; and I know of no plan better 

 calculated to fpur on our farmers, than to let them fee what is done 

 by their brethren in other quarters. 



We have here a great nunriber of fmall farms, rented from 2cl. to 

 60I. a year, on which are kept from four to ten cows : and perhaps 

 not more than ten acres of the drieft fpots are ploughed, yielding 

 little more grain in a good year than is neceffary for the fuppoit of 

 the farmer's family. At pref^nt, there ib not one in five of the 

 farmers of that defcription, but what is under the neceffity of pur« 

 chafing corn, and even many of a higher clafs are in the fame fitua- 

 tion. We have a few farnr.ers who rent from locl. to 5C0I. of land j 

 but, in general, we don't like the plough, the ex pence being fo 

 great as to eat up all the profit ; and, unlefs we can be brought to 

 change our prefent cuftoms altogether, it will never be othetwife. 

 Our ploughing is chiefly performed with oxen j and the farmer who 

 attempts fending his team into the field with lefs than fix of thefe 

 animals, may lay his account with being the ta/k of the country. 

 It is common to fee eight large oxen in one plough, fVirring 

 the bailey land j fo that the very beft land on the farm is em- 

 ployed ill raifing hay and pafture grafs. for the fupport of the 

 working flock. 1 here are more horfes ufcd of late than for- 

 merly, 



