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fuftained from the myriads of infedls which covered them in 

 Auguft, and fucked out the whole juice from the ftiaw. In 

 a word, little or none of this grain prefents a fine fample, and 

 in produce from the mill does not go beyond the lalt year, un- 

 lefs it be in the Highland diflrifts, where it then never ripen* 

 ed. 



Peas, in general, are good ; but beans, now commonly fown 

 in their ftead, (carcely exceed half a crop. As this fpecies of 

 pulfe ripened early, much damage was fuftained from the rains, 

 both in corn and fodder. This remark, however, together 

 with tlie foregoing ones, muft be received with fome little ex- 

 ception, as is very judicioufly flated in another place, by a re- 

 fpedlable correfpondent ; for one week, nay, even one day, in 

 point of harvefting, in this critical feafon, may make a con(i- 

 derable difference in the value of the crop. 



Fodder of all kinds will be fcarce in the extreme over the 

 ■whole illand, during the enfuing Winter ; and the brute crea- 

 tion, unlefs the Winter keep open and mild, ftand a chance 

 of being expofed to great diltrefs. Perhaps turnips could not 

 be ufed with greater advantage, than by giving them in fmall 

 quantities to the lean ftock \ otherwise they will be fo back- 

 ward in Spring, that feeding will be a tedious bufinefs. High 

 prices, triple the ufual rate, are talked of for wintering cattle 

 upon ftraw, which confequently will be given to them in a li- 

 mited manner. 



Having now prefented an abftrafl of the information com- 

 municated to us, it is our duty to notice the grofs impofi- 

 tions pradlifed upon the public, through the channel of the 

 Newfpapers, refpecling the value of the crop, and the at- 

 tempts lately made to inflame the minds of aimofl every rank 

 in fociety, againfl the growers and dealers in the produce of 

 the foil. It has been exprefsly flated, through the whole 

 courfe of the feafon, in oppofition to pofitive fa£ts, that a 

 moft abundant crop every w here loaded the face of the coun- 

 try, and that the high price of provillons has avifen, in a 

 great meafure, not from any real fcarcity, but from a com- 

 bination amongfl the farmers, the dealers, and the manufac- 

 turers of grain, who are held out to public deteflation, un- 

 der the odious names of Foreflallcrs, Monopolizers, Engrof- 

 fers, and Regraters. Thefe mifreprefentations, and the con- 

 clufions drawn from them, have been fupported by the opi- 

 nions and decifions of men, who, at leaft, ought to have been 

 better inforined, and who have raifed an alarm which has 



nearly 



