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on examining their roots, tliey were found totally deftroyed by a 

 worm or maggot, which had alfo eaten out or corroded the heart 

 of the Hems. All thefe plants completely decayed before harvcft, 

 infomuch, that the field will not yield five bolls per acre. 



Turnips have in general failed through the county. In many 

 fields, the feeds never vegetated, for want, of moifture ; and in 

 others, the fevere and long continued drought rendered the plants 

 fickly, when they were attacked and dellroyed by a number of 

 caterpillars and infefts of various defcriptions. In many fields, 

 they have indeed efcaped, and may turn out a middling crop ; 

 but, upon the whole, the cattle fattened in the county during 

 the courfe of the enfuing Winter, upon thefe nourifhing vege- 

 tables, muft be few, when compared with the numbers fed off in 

 an ordinary year. 



The pallure grafs being completely burnt up through the Sum- 

 mer, little milk and butter was produced, and many of the fatten- 

 ing cattle were hurried to market before they were fully fed. 

 Tliis occafioned a glut in the butcher-market for a period : but 

 they are now growing fcarce, and prices on the advance. Good 

 fat will bring 7s. 6d. and 8s. per Hone, finking the oflaL Owing 

 to pailures being gnawed to the roots, by tlie ftarving cattle, iu 

 the tim.c of the drought, the fields have now an uncommon ver- 

 dure, every pile of grafs being expofed to the eye ; but this more 

 in fhow than in reality. Little or no clover was cut a fecond time 

 this feafon ; at any rate, the deficiency of the Summer grafs cannot 

 now be made up. 



To conclude : We cannot view the deficiency of the crop, both 

 with rel'peit to fodder and grain, in the half-filled barn-yarda 

 throughunt the county, without putting every individual on their 

 guard, by a rigid and well-timed economy, to remedy the evil as 

 much as lies in- their power : for as the price of every commodity 

 depends upon the demand and quantity at raatket, it is only by 

 diminilhing the confumption, that, in the event of fcarcity, the 

 prices of grain can be kept moderate ; and it will undoubtedly be 

 found, that every reftr-iftion on its free circulation, and internal 

 commerce, fo far fr-oin being of fer'vice to the community, in re- 

 ducing the price of grain, will ultimately have the contrary effcd- 

 Oaoier 6. 



Tiueedale Quarterly Report. 



The general face of this county being hilly, naturally points out 

 the Iheep-hulbandry, as the molt eligible mode of farming for it ; yet, 



though 



