1816.] Meteorological Report. —Monthly Agricultural Report, '73 



tniithT, Auftili Friart 



Sandcman a. M, Lorhbary 



Icocc w, F, L. NictiolruQ, and G, 



Smith, Leeds 

 Saint J, I ymingmn 

 Tagg J, N- thtr Knutsfjrd, Chelhire 

 Turner R Kinfftoii i.pon Huil 

 Trotc D old Change 

 T»ewell G. Tenterden, Kent 

 Taylor J. Worfliip ftreet 

 yiiifmi K, V, Briftul 



Warner H< and Co, Briftol 



William^ B, and H, Crakenthorp, St| 



Swithin's lane 

 Weft J, and T, J. Culliford, great 



Winchefterftrcet 

 WatfunT, Margaret ftreet, CavendiOi 



lijuare 

 Waghorn T. Chatham 

 Welfti J, and T. Carttr, Great St. Tho- 



Waters B. Birchin lane 



Whaitly W, Lawrence Pounrney hill 



Wilfon E, H, and J, Weftmereland.| 



Liverpool 

 Ward J:Jun, Bermondrey 

 Witts R, Chathdn place 

 Whittiugton R, Neath 

 Young A, Briftol 

 Yates J, E, Holywell ftreet, Shorfr 



ditch 

 YouDB At Starnfortl 



METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 



Barometer. 

 Highest 30.16. June 21, Wind W. 

 Mean temperature of the 24 hours, .54.6. 



Lowest 29.47. July 18, Wind S.W. 

 Mean teniperatuie of the 24 hours, 57. 



Greatest 

 variation iu 

 84 hour^i, 



I 48-hnn- 

 • dredthsof ' 

 i an inch. 



Thermometer, 

 Highest 80'. July 20. Wind S. 

 Mean barometrical pressure of the 24. 



liOHis, 29.75. 

 Lowest 59". July 5, Wind E. 

 Mean barometrical pressure of the 24 

 hours, 29.78. 



^ This variation oc- 

 curred between llio 

 evening of the 2()tli 

 inst. and the same 

 hour of tiie following 

 lay ; on the former 

 day the thermometer 

 standing at 72 Fah- 

 renheit, and on the 

 ^following day at 50. 



An nnnsual quantify of rain has fallen within the month, there being few clear hours, 

 and tlie fall lasting frequently for six or eight hours, without intermission. The total 

 lias been about four inches ; or nearly two inches more than in the same period 

 last year. 



Tlie average temperature for the period is 53.7 of Fahrenheit; the average height of 

 flie barometer is 29.82. The winds have been chiefly from the easterly points. 

 Cocent Garden. 



■ The mercury 

 was on the 29th 



(ult. at 30.13, and 

 on the next day, 



I at the same 

 hour, it was at 



. 29.55. 



Greatest "1 



variation in ^ 22°. <( '^^ 

 24 hours, J 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



THE present-, hay-harvest has been unusually late, difficult, and expensive; and, 

 the distresses of the poor itenerant haymakers, that most useful class of labourers, 

 have, we trust, been generally felt and relieved. Hundreds of them, in a body, 

 have received cliaritable assistance. Great part of the crop will be essentially damaged. 

 The turnips may be expected an average crop, although, iu various parts, the first sow- 

 ings iiave been destroyed. A timely cessation of the rams will afford the prospect of an 

 abiiiidaiit growth of potatoes. The Visriable spring seasons, and late successive rains, 

 have been tiiis year common to both Europe and America, and the corn crops are pro- 

 bable, in consequence, to be universally affected. Much of the wheat in Poland has 

 been destroyed, and great part of Germany and Belgium devastated by floods and storms. 

 In France the crops have escaped more favourably. .So backward a season has not been 

 experienced in tins country since the year 1770. But few eais of wheat had appeared 

 in llie beginning of the present month. The wheat is large and luxuriant on well tilled 

 and fertile soils, but, on cold and poor lands, thin and unhealthy. - Large breadths of 

 the best wheat are blighted in some districts, and unusually tilled with smut. — Reports oa 

 the spring corn are e\ireniely variable, but it is probable that the crops of barley 

 and oat« will be below an aveiage, generally unhoed and foul ; the clovers also having aa 

 ill effect upon them as a rainy season. It is impossible but that a want of the genial 

 cflect of the solar heat, together with constant moisture, must be injurious to the qua- 

 lity and bulk of the wheats, the only remedy for which, if only, can consist in warm and 

 diy weather before harvest; as great a lent'th of time, therefore should be given to the 

 com before cutting as possible, since, after such continued rains, a favourably latter 

 •easuii may be reasonably expected. The wireworm in the spring, and the ulug sines 

 tltc coutiiiued rams, have done considerable mischief to the corn. Wool, particularly 

 fine., in still a very dull market, probably from cause.s out of the power of tlie legislature 

 to remedy. Live stock gradually falling in price. The price of corn has been kept up 

 by the state of the weather, otherwise the decline befortj this time must have been cpn- 

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