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^leficiency. The clover and trefoil, fovvn wich the barleys thi'4 

 year, have an excellent appearance. 



Fat bcafts are now beginning to be plentiful : and as the paftureg 

 and eddi.'hcs are very luxuriant, they have met wich a confiderable 

 reduction in price. Of mutton, the markets have had an ample 

 fupply. Great apprehenlions are entertained of that fatal malady, 

 the rolt which has begun to make its ravages among the flocks ia 

 the lower parts of the county, and heavy loffes are dreaded. 



Wool has not brought fuch high prices as expedted. Prices are 

 various, according to the qualities. The average of long combing 

 wool may be about 23s. per tod of 28 hb. As the harvcft has, for 

 I'ome time, nearly occupied the whole attention of our farmers, 

 little can be faid rcfpcding the prices of grain ; but, as near as 

 can be ^ifccrtained, wheat has fold from 93s. to icos. ; barley, 63s, 

 to 7CS. ; oats, 35s. to 45 s. ; beans, S4S, ; all per quarter of 8 WiiJ- 

 cheller bufhels.— ^ — Sept. 27. 



Norfolk ^larterly Report. 



The foil of this county is fo various, and of courfe fo dItferenS;"- 

 !y operated upon by every kind of weather, that no general de- 

 fcription can with juiiice be given of our rural matters. Frorn 

 this difference of foil, the harveft has been a week and ten daA'S 

 fooner in one place than another, by which fome have fuffered little 

 by the long continued rains, while others have luftained very great 

 and material injury. The long continuation of hot and dry wea- 

 ther which preceded this, hud fo heated the ground, and the 

 warmth of the atmofphere was fo great during the rains, that it was 

 impoffible to prevent thofe grains, at that time cut, from fprouting 5 

 nay, even manyinftances occurred, both in wheat and barley, of its 

 growing as it Hood. The harvell is ended, except in the fcn-lands, 

 >vhere, I underrtand, they have ftili a v/eek's work to complete it. 

 The markets are now beginning to receive a regular fupply. The 

 peas and oats, on the high lands, were in general faved before the 

 rains, and are of a very fine quality, as to colour and weight. Such 

 peas, if white, fell as high as 70s. to 80s.; if grey, 48s. to 

 50s. per quarter. The wheat-crop being injured in many places 

 by th.e mildew, and alfo much fpvouted and damp, the quality 

 is extremely various ; the market-price of the beil, whole qua- 

 lity is extremely fine, reaching lies, per quarter; whilil there 

 are of all gradations down to 60s., and fome for which no price 

 is oiTered. The barley-crop, with fome exceptions as to foil, 

 piuft be efteemed abundant, but the quality extremely various, 

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