oC 962] 
[July 1, 
~MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
— a 
ITHIN the last five or six days, 
we have had an unwelcome return 
of the north-easterly winds, inducing a 
lower and unfavourable degree of tempera- 
ture, at a most critical season, when a genial 
warmth in the atmosphere is of the utmost 
importance. Wheat, on the: best lands, is 
now in the height of the blooming or flow- 
ering process, and the well filling of the 
kernel and weight of the grain is at issue. 
We apprehend, these alternations will cha- 
racterize the season throughout—trusting, 
however, from the past, that the blighting 
change will not be sufficiently rigorous or 
continued, to affect the corn in any con- 
siderable degree. But it is certain that, 
thus far, the fruits are defective in the 
flavour of a genial season. Of apples, a 
modicum crop is expected: of pears and 
plums, less hope. ‘Nothing has transpired, 
since our last, to detract from the luxuriant 
and promising appearance of the crops on 
warm and dry soils: on such, wheat, bar- 
ley, oats, beans, rye, wear the promise of 
an abundant harvest. Of peas, the report 
is less favourable. The swathe of the arti- 
ficial grasses, clover, lucerne, tares, &c. is 
the heaviest that has been known ‘during 
some years, and the seeds and pasture- 
grounds are highly productive; but the 
crop of meadow hay, it is supposed, will 
not be generally heavy. Potatoe plants 
appearing: the vast breadth of the pre- 
sent season will prove a saving appen- 
dage to the wheat ‘crop. Some Swedish 
turnip plants above ground, blighted, here 
and there. The common turnip-sowing in 
progress. Much nonsense and quackery 
published of late, about transplanting and 
drilling Swedish turnips, as though that 
were a recent discovery. The practice will 
scarcely become general, from the extra 
labour, time and expense, and the equal 
certainty of a good crop from sowing and 
judicious drilling. Considerable appearance 
of blight and vermin on the hops, of which, 
it is already decided, the crop cannot be 
large. Prices continue high of all kinds of 
live stock, fat or store. Some vestiges of 
the rot in sheep remain, but the fall of 
lambs has been so generally successful, as 
to afford the prospect of full amends for the 
partial misfortune of the late season. The 
excessive price of cart-horses, particularly, 
has inspired a spirit in the breeders, who 
_are every where extending their studs. 
The demand, from France, for our saddle, 
carriage and stud horses increases ; whence 
it would seem that the French supply other 
parts of the Continent. In consequence, 
certain of our sages of the old school are 
publishing their apprehensions, lest we 
should lose our national superiority in that 
mostimportant animal, and that the nations 
of the Continent should find it. We recom- 
mend to these gentlemen a few lessons in 
political economy. ‘The more horses we 
export, the more and the more yaluable 
shall we be enabled to raise. A capital 
saddle or carriage-horse cannot be bred and 
reared in this country, until fit for use, 
under the cost, at least, of £190. Sheep- 
shearing in activity—the fleeces: good and 
heavy. The wool-growers and staplers, as 
usual, hot at the carte and tierce of contro- 
versy—the former, probably, to succeed in 
raising the price, from the immense and 
growing demand for our national manufac- 
ture. Tup and sheep-breeding, in the mid- 
land counties, has experienced a most ex- 
traordinary stimulus, from our general and 
manufacturing prosperity; and the Astrea 
of social entertainment and plentiful dinners, 
diluted with the choicest wines and the 
most potent October, has returned.’. The 
farmer is himself again! May he continue 
so! The liberation of the bonded corn and 
flour has been far enough from depressing 
the price, which will prove a successful test 
of what may be farther attempted. The 
coming harvest, it is said, will not be so 
early as the last; yet a considerable surplus 
of the bread-corn of last year will be found 
at the close of the present. 
Smithfield :—Beef, 4s. 6d. to 5s. 4d.— 
Mutton, 4s. 6d. to 5s. 6d.—Veal, 5s. 4d. 
to- 6s. 8d.—Lamb, 5s. 8d. to-7s:— Pork, 4s. 
6d. to 6s.—Raw Fat, 2s. 2de-Bath Bacon, 
5s, 4d. to 5s. 6d.—Irish, 4s. 8d. to 4s. 10d. 
Corn Exchange :—Wheat, 48s. to 52s.— 
Barley, 32s. to 42s.—Oats, 22s. to 32s.— 
Bread (London), J03d. the loaf of 41b.— 
Hay, per load, 55s. to 105s.—Clover, ditto, 
60s. to 120s.—Straw, 36s. to 56s. 
Coals in the Pool, 28s. 6d. to 37s. 6d. 
Middlesex, June 20. 
MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REPORT. 
UGAR.—The buyers of British Plantation Sugar have this week not shewn so much 
inejination to purchase ; but holders evince-no disposition to relax in their demands. 
Grocers’ Sugars have been bought rather lower, and at full ls. per cwt. under our quo- 
tations ; but strong qualities are much sought after, and fully command former prices.— 
On Tuesday, 172 hhds. Barbadoes Sugar were sold at 61s. 6d. to 72s. per cwt. 
Refined Sugars have been very dull the gréater part of the week; but the last account 
from the Continent being favourable, the prices recoyered the depression, and therefore 
may be :quoted at our statement, 
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