bo2 Monthly Agricultural Report. [ Nov. 
quotation their small sprinkling of sprouted corn--their rains during the summer, as in 
most parts of Ireland, being genial showers, with dry intervals. Their barley-crop late 
harvested, but generally bright, fine, and heavy. By a singular anomaly, oats, so abun- 
dant elsewhere, the worst crop they have complained of during many years, and particularly 
defective in straw. Plenty of seed-wheat of fine quality, both old and new—the new white 
proving the best sample, yet the sudden brisk demand has maintained it at a high price. 
With the above exception, the report on all their crops and their harvesting, appears highly 
satisfactory. The pilchard fishery has been remarkably successful, and labourers are, generally, 
well employed. From Cumberland and its vicinity, the accounts are nearly as satisfactory. 
They seem to have escaped all the difficulties of the harvest; their wheat nearly an ave- 
rage quantity and quality ; oats with a vast bulk of straw, and good prospect of yield; with 
the best crop of barley that they have gathered during many years. 
Several of our correspondents from different quarters go so far as to assert, that the stock 
of old wheat at Michaelmas was actually double in amount to that of the foregoing year. 
Without warranting the accuracy of this calculation in any particular quarter, we remain 
confirmed in our former opinion of the ample sufficiency of the stock—a fortunate circum 
stance, considering the general inferiority of the new sample. The great demand on this 
stock for seed, and for mixing, together with the speculative views of the holders of bonded 
foreign wheat, obviously occasioned the late yery sudden rise in price ; and the eagerness 
of our country holders not to miss their share of the benefit very naturally produced an 
equally sudden decline in the London merket, which governs all others, and which, in @ 
late week, had arrivals of wheat and flour to an amount unprecedented for some years past. 
The governments of both France and England have been laudably solicitous to secure a 
foreign supply ; and, with our ample and excellent stock of well-stored potatoes, no appre- 
hension need be entertained of a want of bread: at the same time, it ought not to be 
expected cheap. The average weight of our new wheat is laid at 4tbs. or 5tbs. per impe- 
rial bushel below that of last year. The old stocks of malt and hops were considerable. It 
is said that some samples of very fine old wheat-haye been sold at £5. 10s. the quarter, and 
the London loaf has reached 13d. ‘ 
Hop-picking has concluded under happier auspices than expected, and the crop tallies 
very evenly with that of wheat, in regard to amount and quality. Of turnips and mangel- 
wurtzel there will he plenty, though it is supposed the crop of neither will be remarkable for 
size and weight of bulb. Now is the time for those who have the prudent foresight to draw 
and store, at least, a considerable part of both. Clover-seed hath not deceived us ; it is a 
bad crop. Young clovers, and grasses of all kind, most luxuriant; but the great flush of 
grass, as we apprehended, has not forwarded the cattle in proportion, and, upon wet soils, 
has brought a suspicious unsoundness in the sheep. The scarcity of apples in the country 
seems a general complaint, which may be contrasted with their present considerable plenty 
in the metropolis, where, nevertheless, nonpareils are 18s. per bushel. 
Perhaps no living man has witnessed a more favourable season for sowing wheat, truly 
disgraced, indeed, by the foul and slovenly condition of the fallows. If any thing could 
possibly atone for this foul disgrace to British husbandry in the nineteenth century, it must 
be the late resource, in several remote districts, to the enlightened practice, recommended 
many years since, of paring and burning the stubbles. Tn the early sowing counties, the 
young wheats, the produce of old seed, have planted thickly and vigorously, and, in theix 
infancy, are of high promise. Expectation is not so sanguine in favour of those from new 
and infirm seed. The breadth of this favourite farmers’ crop, it is expected, will be amongst 
the largest hitherto known ; and, the present favourable weather continuing, all will be got 
in during the autumn—a signal advantage. The drill husbandry is once more making its 
appearance in the country ; not the sham or bastard drill, which has so long prevailed, and 
with so little enmity to weed vegetation—but the real system of that immortal, though 
slighted benefactor to his country, old Jeruro Tux, which admits not of the possible 
existence of weeds, either below or above ground, converts every arable farm into a garden, 
and would, if generally adopted, give employment to the whole body of our labourers, at a 
charge of labour far below the present—or, rather, at free cost; since the weeds upon most 
farms, according to the present practice, are a much heavier expense to the farmer than that 
of labour. If we can entertain any hope of the general renewal and spread of the real 
drill system, it must arise from the recent example of the great Coxe, of Holkam, who has 
made corn to grow where none could be grown before ; and who, in the course of half a cen- 
tury of unremitting attention, has changed a barren desert into a fruitful and profitable 
paradise, surrounded by a tenantry unparalleled for wealth, respectability, and intelligence, 
and contributing more towards the public subsistence than any other man living. Yet a 
man like this must not expect to enjoy an equal share of fame or of popular favour with the 
destroyers of the earth and of human life! For an account of the Tullian system and prac- 
tice, reference may be had to the “‘ New Farmers’ Calendar.” 
Nothing of novelty has occurred since last month, excepting that the price of pigs, which 
seemed rather to decline, has revived. Store cattle and sheep hold price, or have rather 
advanced, keep being still so abundant, and vast winter stocks leaving no apprehension of — 
want in the spring. Wool, where holders. are prudent enough to sell it, has had no 
