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‘ MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE sowing of the wheat crops has now been almost wholly completed, even in the mong 
* northern districts of the kingdom, Those which were put in early are now upy and look 
femarkably well, in many instances nearly covering the ground. ; 
* Grain in the London market still continues to look up. Wheat averages 853. Sd. peg 
quarter ;—Barley, 42s. Sd, ;—-Oats, 32s. 6d. ° vy 
The potatoe crops have likewise now, ina great measure, been taken up, and are found in 
all the northern districts to turn out uncommonly well, affurding a much larger return than 
those of last year. ‘They are also at the sams time unusually good on all the more dry ang 
elevated grounds. me 
On thrashing out the grain crops, we are sorry to find that.in some cases they do not produce 
so well as there was reason to suppose, while standing on the ground. There is more light 
grain than was expected even during the harvest season, Since the finishing of the plough- 
ing for wheat, the farmers have kept their teams at work, as much as possible, in making up 
the land for their spring crops, a mode of husbandry which, is of the utmost advantage, and 
which should never be neglected when it can be had recourse to with convenience. a mihi 
The droppiness of the season in the preceding, as well as the present, month, has afforded 
an unusual quantity of feed for live stock, both in the meadows and pasture Jands 3 80.much soy 
that in some of the counties in the northern part of the island, they have scarcely a suffie 
ciency of stock to consume it before it becomes injured by the frosts. ; ; 
In Smithfield market, Beef fetches from 4s. 4d. to 5s. 4d.- per stone of 8lb. 3—-Mutton, 
from 4s, 2d. to 5s, 4d. ;-Veal, from 6s. to 7s. ;—and Pork, from 63, to 7s." 2% 
The turnips, both Swedish and common, as well as most other sorts of green cattle crops, 
in gerieral look uncommonly well, and have in many ‘cases risen to a size that must afford a 
considerably more abundantly supply of winter and spring food than was at one period sup- 
posed by those farmers who growthem. The season has been highly favourable for them in 
wiost places. ' Ronn 
" The beans in most of the more northern cquaties are but very indifferent crops, yielding am 
unusually short produce. 
In Smithfield market, Hay fetches from 51. 15s. to 6]. 1.03. per load ;—-Clover, from Gl. 10s. 
to 7}. 10s. ;—Straw, from 11. 13s. to 11. 16s. ‘dei ‘ 
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‘ METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of September to the 24th 
of October, 1808, inclusive, Two Miles N.W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer. * Thermometer. 
Highest 30.20, Oct. 12, Wind N.E, Higheft 68° Oct. 6. Wind W. 
Lowest 29.19. Oct. 26. Wind S.W. Lowest 30° Oct. 23, Wind N.E. 
Between the 
; . evenings of the 
Greatest € 5-tenths 24th and 25th, Greateft 
variation in ¢ ofaninch.< the mercury sunk} variation in 
24 hours from 29.69 to, 24 hours. . 
29.19. 
In the morning, just 
before sun-rise, on the 
16°, } 22d, the thermometer 
was 47°, Atthe same 
hour on the 23d it was 
no higher than 319. 
. The quantity of rain fallen since the last Report is equal to 4.84 inches in depth; this is 
nearly equal to the quantity mentioned in the last number of this Magazine. It may there- 
fore be regarded as a very rainy season, The rains have teen attended with heavy gales of 
wind, chiefly from the south and south-west; those on the nights between the 23d and 24th, 
and between the 25th and 26th, were by much the most violent: they have been compared 
to the very high winds in 1780. The average height of the barometer, for the interval be~ 
tween the present and last report, is 29.1: thatof the thermometer is about 499. The num- 
ber of brilliant days is sixteen3 on most of the others there has been rain in greater or Jess 
quantities, ; ‘ 
Astronomical Anticipations. 
On the Sd of November the moon will be totally eclipsed, and will be partly visible to 
the inhabitants of this island: the eclipse commences about three quarters of an hour before 
the moon sets to us; but as it begins at about half past six, apd the whole moon is not ob- 
cured till forty minutes past seven, we shall bave but a partial view of the phenomenon. 
‘The full moon is at.twenty-seven minutes past eight in the same morning. The next new 
“mogn will be at aboyt thrac in the morning of the 18th, The sun now sises at a quarter 
. before 
