l8oo. Jgrlailtural Intelligence — England, 4^5 



The harveft has been long and tedious : it began the ill of 

 Auguft, and is yet unfinifhed. OBoher 4. 



Extrail of a Letter from a Farmer in Walesa September ^oiIj. 



** We had a remarkably dry Summer ; fcarcely a fhower from 

 the middle of May till the 19th of this month, fince which it has 

 rained and blovved by turns. The grafs was entirely burnt up; 

 and fome farmers on the clay lands had to fodder their cattle with 

 hay, before the cornharvelt commenced. Hay is, in general, a fair 

 crop, but much of it was carried too foon : where it got time to win, 

 the quality is excellent. Our corn-harveft commenced about the 

 8lh of Auguft, and was nearly over in three weeks. It came on all 

 at once, except fome late barleys, which are not worth reckoning. 

 Wheat improved every day till harveft, and will be a laving crop, 

 which is more than we expefted from previous appearances. Oats 

 are very ftiort, but well corned ; fmall in the grain, which does not 

 fill the meafure well. Barley does not exceed half a crop : on the 

 beft land it was thin, and, on the clays, it will fcarce pay for the 

 gathering. The few peas fown here are good. 'Potatoes very bad. 

 Tew turnips, moll of them being ploughed down, and the land pre- 

 pared for wheat. Corn-markets fluttuate much. Immediately after 

 the harveft, wheat dropped Irom 55s. to 26s. per bulhel of 20 gal- 

 lons : it has again rofe to 33s. and 34s. Barley from i8s. to 20s., 

 and oats i6s. and 17s. ; but ourbuihcl for that grain is nearly equal 

 to four Winchefter ones. Seed-tares, 303. No peas or beans 

 at market. Butter, is. 3d. per lib. of ;6 ounces. Cheele of (heeps 

 milk, 9{d. and lod. ; of cows milk, ^d. ; of Ikim milk, 6id. 

 Beef, from jd. to 6d. ; mutton, from 4'd. to 6'd. ; veal, 5d. ; 

 pork, 5id. Hay, from 4I. to 61. per ton ; and llraw dearer ia 

 proportion. 



If we could believe the newfpapers, the crop in Britain is, this 

 feafon, very great : but, when I read of the vaft crops of corn and 

 potatoes in Glamorganftiire, I can give but little credit to what is 

 laid concerning other counties. It is owing to fuch mifreprefenta- 

 tions, that we liad fo much rioting in this quarter. Laft week, the 

 forge- men occafioned much diUurbance j but, thank God, they 

 pre now quiet, and the gaol full of them." 



ExtraEl of a Letter from Stafford^ OSober ^th. 



^' In confequence of the late commotions here, and in other places 

 of the County, the Mayor requeftedthe principal farmers to attend 



^ him 



