1826.] Monthly Agricultural Report. 97 



Creditor calculation. The wlieats continue to look well, and are sufficiently thick 

 planted on all well-managed soils. Of all other crops, the report is equally favounible. 

 Potatoes, although by no means a good cro]), whether in respect of quantity per acre or 

 quality, are now habitually cultivated to such an extent, that no defect of supjily is ap- 

 prehended, nor is there any noticeable advance of price ; the chief apprehension is on the 

 score of a want of good seed for future |)lantirig. The supply of barley, from the im- 

 port, has not been considerable enough to affect the price ; nor has the quality been 

 equal to the delicacy of hand requisite for our English markets ; thence fine malting or 

 grinding samples are, and will be, in request : but within these few days the foreign sup- 

 ply has increased. On \\o\>%, nothing worth reporting. In our wool trade, a certain 

 mystification has for some time prevailed, which puts it completely out of our power even 

 to offer a conjecture. Oats, perhajjs, one of the most defective crops of late years ; of 

 inferior consequence indeed, since this country seldom grows enough for its consumption. 

 As to fruit, we stand in the same predicament, without an equally good apology, the 

 orchards of America, France, Guernsey and Jersey, supplying our tables with apples 

 and pears. It ought not to be omitted, that the manyel wurzel, with its other advan- 

 tages, has re-introdiiced the good old-fashioned practice of storing roots ; expense, if in 

 the field, considerably under 20s. per acre. An autumnal reduction has at length taken 

 place in the price of ])rovisions : in cattle and sheep, both store and fat, prime stores yet 

 fetch a high price. Tlie gi-eat jilcnty of acorns has also contributed to reduce the price 

 of pork and bacon. The metropolitan cattle-show, chronologically, the 2Gth, was most 

 numerously attended, and that not only by the regular professional men, but by those 

 of another, which has always been a notable and acknowledged profession in this coun- 

 try; these last succeeded in dealing advantageously with two customers, abstracting 

 from the pockets of one, notes to the amount of i.200, from those of another £\(iO, not 

 to mention minor bargains. Good horses, nominally reduced in price, are still worth 

 any price, but the breeders are on the alert. The largest importations of cart-horses 

 from the Continent ever known, have lately taken place, being extraordinarily profitable ; 

 and it seems equally extraordinary, that cows have been, thus far, overlooked. The late 

 commercial distress in London, purely the result of excessive prosjjcrity, overtrading, 

 speculation and swindling, has been inevitably, and still will be, sc\erely felt throughout 

 the country; with this, in some degi-ee, countervailing advantage, that as it results from 

 storms in the natural atmosphere, the atmosphere of country currency may haply be 

 purified. There can be no solid objection to country paper currency, presupposing its 

 due solidity. Our letters, and indeed personal observation, fully confirm our former 

 reports, in our old scries, of a general amendment in the wages and condition of the farming 

 labourers ; at the same time we were, and are still, sensible of the existence of too much 

 of the old leven of poverty and misery, in certain poor districts ; and of the baneful 

 influence of select vestries, of which we have had some actual experience. And wc fully 

 agree with our respectable Correspondent, C. W., of the vicinity of Chipping Norton, 

 Oxfordshire, on this subject. 



Smithfield.— Beef, is. to 5s. -k/.— Mutton, 3s. to 5s. 4</.— Veal, 4s. 6rf. to 5s. 6d. — 

 Pork, 4s. to 5s. 6d. — Dairy Pork, 6s. — Bath Bacon, 5s. to 5'. 4<1. — Irish, is. 8d. to 

 4s. 10(/.— Pickled Pork, 50s. per cwt. — Raw Fat, 2s. 7^(f. per stone. 



Com Exchange.— Vihea.t, 45s. to 72s.— Barley, 30s. to 4««.— Oats, 25j. to 34s.— 

 London loaf of fine Bread, 41b. lOrf.— Hay, 70s, to 105s.— Clover ditto, 80s. to )20s.— 

 Straw, 36s. to 45. . 



Coals in the Pool, 38s. 6d, to 42s. 



Middlesex, I6lh December 1825. 



Alphabetical List of Bankruptcies, announced between, tlw 23d of October ami the 

 ]9th of November 1825; extracted from the London Gazettes. 



BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSED^ED. AUnond, R. Abington, grocer. [Miller, Somerset; 



Crown, L.S.mderland, shipbuilder. ..""k "fo^^^ "^1"' ^'''^■tf"'^' i, , -i ,„^ 



Darke, E. Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, coal- Akebo. J.R. pe.Bank-buildings, merchant. _J. and 



merchant ^* Pearce, St. Swrthms-lane 

 Dennis, R. Bradney, Lincoln, timber-merchant Ashton. S. Birmingham, iron-founder and chap- 

 Giles, W. Hexton, Middlesex, dealer and chapman ™an. fClarke and Co. Chancer>-lane ; and Tyn- 

 Jacobs, E. Windsor, dealer in jeweUery , df " <^g Rawlins, Birmingham 

 Jarv is, J. Brompton, uilor Ashby, R. b. Lombard-street, engraver. [Cottle, 

 McMurdie, W. and W. C. Pout, Epping, stationers . AldermanDury ck k „, ™!,),c 

 Turner, E. Howarth-cross, Lancasliire, corn-factor ^stley, R. and E. Hickman, Shrewsbury-, smiths. 

 Wade, J. S. Aldsburph, brickniaker nt^^'^'^S' Burtonupon-Trent 

 Wheeihouse, W. Norwich, linen-draper Barker P. Cambridge, grocer. [Tate and Johnson. 



Wolff.A.M. King's-aims-yard, merchant ,. '^J!I'*''J, i", . ^^ d i -i- i wo, ri-^ 



x> A xix^DTTn'rr'Tr-c r-ri.: - Tvr„.,tl, lOO T Barber, M.Morton Banks, York, malster. [Lee, 



BANKRUPTCIES. [ Hus Monthl99.] j^^^^. andBattyeand Co. Chancery-lane 



Solicitors' Names are m Parentheses. Baker, S. Wood-street, Cheapside, victualler. 



Anderson, C. Lawrence Pountney Hill-place, flour- [Rushberry, Carthusian-street 



factor. [Fisher, Queen-street, Cheapside Bennattav, H. Ho« ford-buildings, Fenchchurch-5t. 



M. M. Ntw Series. — ^'ol. L- No. 1. O 



