4S2 Agricultural Intelligetice-^Englatid. Ocl. 



eiccept thofe which were harveded before the rains. Very few, even 

 of the dried and bell coloured, are free from a fproiited kernel, and 

 fomc have oven one half of them irrown ; the prices, of coiirft, muft 

 be extremely different. Th'.^fe of good body, and iaved without 

 rain, are of the fined quality 1 have feen for many years, and were 

 eagerly fought after by fome ncceffuous maltllers, even at 80 s. per 

 quarter: that fpirit is however fotnewhat damped, and fuch now 

 only obtain 70s. to 72s. — The fecond quality, which is dry and well 

 faved, excepting here and there a fingle fprouted co/n, and of which 

 the malting fort mufl: mollly coafid, obtains from 46^. to 54s., with 

 all gradations downvvfards, even to 24s. per quarter. Tiie turnip- 

 crop, excepting particular foils and late foivlngs, dood the long 

 drought beyond all expectation ; and, fince the rains have come, 

 have experienced a growth and improvement never remembered in 

 fo Oiort a fpace of time. This crop may be reckoned very tine. 

 The eddiflies and graffes are mod abundant ; but hay, in confe- 

 quence of many fiiips loading the fame for the northern counties, is 

 advanced confiderably, being now fold at 4s. 6d. per cwt., and 5s. 

 demanded. Beef and mutton is tolerably plentiful ; the former 

 6s. 6d. to 7s. per 14 lib., and the latter 5^d. to 6d. per lib. You 

 may form your own calculations as to what the grazier obtains, as 

 they generally get 6d. to 9d. per done more on beef, and ^d. to 4d. 

 per lib. more on mutton, according to the feafon, to fink the offal. 

 At our principal lamb-fair, 4th September, that article went off 

 very flt*w ; but wether-lambs obtained i6s. to 19s. per head. The 

 South'down and half-bred went off more ready. Of wool, I under, 

 ftand Norfolk has obtained 46s. to 48s. ; South-down, 503. to 52s. 

 6d. ; Long Lincoln, 23s. to 25s. per tod of 28 lib.; but much is 

 unfold. The preparation for wheat-fowing is going bufily forward, 

 and the feafon is favourable. 



Extract vf a Letter f torn Lyririy 08oler i. 



At the commencement of the liarved, (fay from the beginning of 

 Augnd till the 19th of the fame month), we had remarkably fine 

 ■weather ; and nearly the whole of the rye, peas, and high-land oats> 

 with about one fourth of the wheat, and one fifth ot the barley, 

 were fecured in excellent condition, and are of beautiful quality. 

 Since then, the com has been harveded in various conditions, and 

 equally various in quality, particulai'^' the two lad articles, which 

 are muci> grown ; for, owing to the heat of the earth when the rain 

 came, that which was cut vegetated quicker than ever was known. 



The crop of wheat was generally thought, before the rains, a 



very 



