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Henderson, J. «nd A. NeiUon 

 ' Miire-coiirt, Milk-street 

 Hickman, W. and D. Timothy, 



Lticester-sq'jare 

 Horisou F. M. Manchesler 

 Humplireys, C. Bisliopsgaie-strei't 

 Isbell. R. C.CliappIe, and R. D. 



Isbell, Millbay, Devon 

 Jones, R. A. Toitenham Court-road 

 Kilsliaw,J. Liverpool 

 Kini>sell,J. Ulackwall 

 Knibb, A. Barnwell St. Andrew, 



Norlhamptonsliire 

 Knott, J. Barfrestone.Kent 

 lee, J. Cliarles-st. Horslevdown 

 Lucas, J. Primrose-Street, Bishops 



git'-'Jtreer 

 Maddy,W. Leeds 

 Mercer, J. Basinghall-slreet 



Agricultural Report, 



Mercer.T. Billin^hurst, Sussex 

 Miller, W.Rve,S'i<sex 

 Mitchell, J. Noruicli 

 Mulligan, T. Abbey Church- yard, 



Bath 

 Ogiivy, VV. jun. G. Mylne, and 



J. tlialmets, Jetlrey'i-square 

 Parker, J. Oidbury, Shrophire 

 Peacock, R. Liverpool 

 Petiii,J.andS.R.Burch,.Souihwark 

 ?uIlan,P. Leeils 

 Ramsay, J. ani R. Forster, Old 



Broad-strcct 

 Read, A. Pimlico 

 Richards, T. sen. Bridgwaler- 



sqiiare, Barbican 

 Robertson. G.Wapping 

 Bucner, S. Broad-Slreei 

 balmiiii, S. Regent street 



[April 1 , 



Sanders, T. Stratford-upon-Avon 



Sharpley, J. Torlc 



.Shirley.R. Bucklershury 



Sinclair, J. Bow lane 



Smith, J. Bath 



Stinson, B. Dudley, Worcestersh. 



Tetford, J. and W. Arundell, Li- 

 verpool 



Tollcrrav, W. H. Portaca 



Tonse, G. VV. B. East Indii 

 Chambers 



Tucker, J. A. Jermyn-street 



X'nderwood, C. Cheltenham 



Vere, C. Cloth Fair 



VVhitaker,J. and R. AUop, Man- 

 chester 



Woollaston, J. and F. Upjohn, 

 Holborn bridge. 



MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



THE pa^t lias been one of the mildest 

 wiiilers within nieinory, and particu- 

 larly fo ill the, noitli and in Scotland, 

 where vca;ctatioii in January and Feljrnary 

 assumed the lloiid and blooniin;; appear- 

 ance of April and May. The improve- 

 ment in pi ices has infused iniicli life and 

 fpint into the farming inlerest, and ad- 

 vantage has been iniiversally taken of the 

 favoniable sia'e of tlie weather, in the 

 Cwo first months, to forward tiie usual 

 agricultural operations. On the best 

 coils, bean and pea selling (the drill and 

 dibble becoming annually nijre general,) 

 were successfully finished wilhin the la'^t 

 nionllr. The same of spiing-whcat, Tala- 

 \era or Spanish being the species most in 

 use. The tillers of backward lands have 

 not been so fortunate, from the extremely 

 variable and occasionally seveie weather 

 of the picsent month. Dry and sound 

 lands have presented little or no impedi- 

 ment, and the crops on such will be for- 

 ward. Should a favourable change of 

 weather take place, all the spring crips, — 

 oats, barley, seeds, — will yet be got in 

 with stifficiint forwardness. It is too 

 «'arly to speak of the hop plantations, but 

 the root is said to be defective. Meadow 

 and pasture lands, wiih the aitificial 

 grasses, wear a healthy and luxuriant ap- 

 pearance, except where injured by too 

 nnicli or stagnant w ater. Our letters from 

 diSercnt parts of the country complain of 

 great damage done to the fresh-planted 

 beans, peas, and Mhcal, by the crows; 

 nveaning, we suppose, rooks. Tliis is an 

 unavailing complaint, in fact essentially 

 the same as to complain of the mildness of 

 the winter. A mild season iiievitably con- 

 <liices to t!ie procreation of extraordinary 

 multitudes of iiisectile vermin, — slug.s, 

 grubs, wifeworn-.^, &c. 'I'liese are the pe- 

 culiar prey of the rook, and, in detaching 

 iheni from the roots of the plants, many 

 must necessarily be torn np and destroyed 

 on sonn' spots, even to thinning the crop. 

 'I'his, however, is the least evil ; f,,r, with- 

 out tin; ihinning of them eti'ected by the 

 rooks, the vermin would increase to .such 

 nivtiails, as abaohiltly to devour our whole 



crops, and expose ns to those periodical 

 famines to which other countries are liable. 

 The lambing season may be called univer- 

 sally successful. Not JO the winter feed- 

 ing of those who have kept their sheep 

 on wet |)oacliy lands, upon running, 

 spongy, and rotten turnips. In Norfolk, 

 that most profitable ])ractice of storing 

 turnips, has prevailed much and commen- 

 dably of late. Complaints are in the 

 London markets of the inferiority, during 

 the present season, of the famoirs Devon 

 beef, arisii:g probably from the defective 

 quality of the last year's hay. Cattle mar- 

 kets have varied little ; the supply has 

 been abundant and constant, and the 

 prices great. Horses of all descriptions 

 in leqtiest, and almost any price given for 

 the comparatively few that are really va- 

 liiable. Land advances in the market. 

 Complaints of want of employment for 

 the labourers have almost ceased, and their 

 wages have had some advance. The 

 spirit of improvement is rising in the 

 country ; and it is neither the fault of the 

 soil, nor the seasons, nor the population, if 

 universal national prosperity be not the 

 result. There is mote life in the wool 

 trade. Wheat, having reached its specu- 

 lative IieiLihi, is now receding in price. It 

 is impossible, and we stated it repeatedly 

 last year befcre harvest, that, in a season- J 

 subject to so much atmospheric vicissi- I 

 tude, a full crop of wheat of the purest 

 and most snbslantial quality can be pro- 

 duced. The last was full one-third ilefi- 

 cient in quantity, and more in quality. 

 That circumstance, aided by speculation, 

 raised the pi ice.. The stock of old wheat 

 on hand is yet considerable. It is with 

 regret we state, that a minority of our ciil- 

 tivaior.s of the soil still persist in those 

 prejiulices under whicli the late respecta- 

 ble iMr. Welihe Hall acted, with such ill- 

 advi\ed and useless ptiseverancc. If no 

 ar:;unients will convince them that they 

 are misled, and that, in these days of light 

 and information, ihe price of the first ne- 

 cessaries, in a ni.!i.n!ailnriug and commer- 

 ria! coiinir\, must not, — cannot, — l)e aifi- 

 fictilly kept up; a; le;;st, they ouglit to 



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