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faintest hope of success, and notwithstand- 
ing that the ultimate event was whfayour- ° 
able, the partial and present success with 
which the operation was attended, may be 
almost taken in proof, that under some cir- 
Monthly Agricultural Report. \ 
[ Dec. 3, 
cumstances of menaced suffecation from’ 
this dread disorder, it may be had recourse 
to with propriety and effect! ~‘ 
we SOWING, BED. 
Bedford Row, Nov. 26, 1824.» 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
—— 
UR. late prospect of an amendment 
in the weather has failed, and the low 
lands continue to be deluged to the entire 
prevention, in many parts, of those agricul-_ 
tural operations propey to the season. On 
the continent also, the farmers are in the 
same unfortunate predicament. The pre- 
sent month being usually the latest in the 
autumn, for the commission of wheat seed 
to the earth, a considerable portion of the 
_ business of sowing will necessarily stand 
over to January and the beginning of Fe- 
bruary. This is by no means the sum of 
the injury. The perpetual redundance of 
moisture has favoured the production of 
myriads of slugs, which have already been 
most injuriously busy with the young 
wheats, on the low lands and sodden clays. 
Such a state of the weather, also, in au- 
tumn, is generally followed by the pest of 
svire-worms in the spring. The early sown 
wheat on dry and healthy lands vegetated 
quickly, and is a strong and forward crop ; 
that on poor soils and cold infertile clays, 
is weak, of an unhealthy colour, and much 
thinned by the vermin. In some exposed 
districts, the turnips have been singularly 
affected by the almost constant gales of 
wind; they have been blown to the earth, 
the bulbs half uncovered, and so much of 
the fibrous roots destroyed, as to leave 
little probable hope of farther increase in 
the weight of the erop. The excess of 
moisture, moreover, must deteriorate the 
quality of the common turnip; and they 
will be fortunate, who have a considerable 
breadth of the rutabaga or Swedish turnip, 
whieh, from its firmer texture, will pro- 
bably be better able to resist the redun- 
dancy of moisture. However, in general, 
the turnip crop never exhibited a finer ap- 
pearance. In backward situations, part of 
the out-crop was abroad as late as the first 
week of this month, much of it harvested 
with difficulty, and the whole of very low 
quality. A great portion of the c’over 
seed is umnsaleable at very low market, 
but that of the oil-mills. Preparing the 
heavy lands for wheat-sowing has been 
laborious and expensive.” The grass, sa- 
turated indeed with moisture, thence re- 
duced in its feeding quality, and in many 
places dangerous for sheep stock, conti- 
nues in immense abundance , and it being 
a similar case with all kinds of autumnal 
food for live stock, every species holds 
price in a most extraordinary degree. 
Milch cows, in calvers and syicklers, haye 
fetched the highest prices that have been 
heard of during many years; Twenty and 
twenty-five shillings have’ been given for 
store pigs, three monthspold. Horses, the 
good ones especially, never in great plenty, 
haye known no autumnal reduction of 
price. Good sized yearling cast colts, and 
yearling racers, are ready money at a very 
high figure. The exportation from Ireland 
to our opposite coasts, of cattle, sheep, 
and some horses, has of late been very 
brisk; and the Irish stock is said to be 
much improved. The price of wheat has 
again had perhaps a temporary adyance, 
from the inclemency of the weather, the 
demand for seeds, and the opinions of spe- 
culators: good barley must, at any rate, 
remain dear until we are relieved by another 
crop; in consequence we must expect to 
eat our bread and drink our beer at a high 
price, which certainly will not tend to 
check the usual adulteration of the latter ; 
a matter however of little moment, since 
it is a fact, that a vast majority of the peo- 
ple of this country ever have, and still do, 
prefer the adulterated beverage, to that 
which is the simple and genuine product of 
malt and hops. Wool of ready sale and 
advancing. There seems some degree of 
improvement in the condition of the la- 
bourers in husbandry. Hay bears a high 
price, considering the great quantity on 
hand. The warm, dry, and fertile districts, 
are in a far better situation with respect to 
quantity and quality of produce and success 
in harvest and seed time, than is to be un- 
derstood from the general tenour of this re- 
port. In Scotland, both harvest and wheat 
sowing may be considered fortunate. 
Smithfield :—Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d.— 
Veal, 4s. 6d. to 5s. 8d.—Mutton,. 4s. Od. 
to 4s. 6d. ——Pork, 4s..6d. to 5s. 8d.— Bath 
Bacon, 5s. 10d.—TIrish do, .5s, , 
Corn Exchange :— Wheat, 52s. to 80s.— 
Barley, 35s. to 55s.—Oats, 22s. to 35s.— 
Bread, (London), 11d. the loaf of 4lb.— 
Hay, 60s. Od: to 100s.—Clover: do. 75s. to 
126s.—Straw 33s. to 45s. 
Coals in the Pool; 36s.°9d. to 46s. "3d: 
Middleser, 22d Nov. E ‘ 
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