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PATENTS FOR MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL INVENTIONS. 
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List of Patents, which, having been granted 
in December 1814, expire in the present 
month of December 1828. 
10. R. Dickenson, Esq., London, for 
improvements in the manufacture of barrels 
and other packages made of iron or other 
metals. 
— R. Salmon, Woburn, for improved 
movements and combinations of wheels for 
working cranes, mills, and all sorts of ma- 
chinery, either portable or fixed. 
— E. Glover, Walworth, for apparatus 
for drawing or extracting bolts, nails, §c., 
and for other purposes. 
12. H. J. Winter, Dover, for his method 
of giving effect to various operating pro- 
cesses. 
15. J. C. Dyer, Camden Town, for ad- 
ditions and improvements on machinery 
for the manufacturing of cards for carding 
wool, silk, tow, and other fibrous materials 
of the like description. 
— J.F. Wyatt, London, for an inven- 
tion of a new kind of bricks or blocks— 
one for fronting houses, one for a new 
method of binding brick-work ; also for 
paving floors, and for stairs. 
20. W. Everhard, London, for an im- 
provement in the manufacture of soap. 
— J. Smith, Newark-upon-Trent, for 
an improved self-acting sash fastening. 
— W. Dickinson, Esq., London, for an 
improvement in implements applicable to 
the ship’s nun buoy and beacon buoy.} 
— J. Vallance, Brighton, for an im- 
proved method of constructing casks and 
vats, and cocks. 
24. F. Konig, London, for imnprove- 
ments on his method of printing by ma- 
chinery. 
— W. Cooke and E. Jorden, Norwich, 
for their apparatus for the detection of 
depredators, which they denominate the 
thieves’ alarm. 
27. J. White, London, for a new and 
improved method of making candles. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
Tue fortunate conclusion of wheat sowing was the signal for expediting what re- 
mained of getting up the potatoe crop, and storing mangel-wurtzel. 
Next in order came 
ploughing up the stubbles for spring fallows, which is, generally, in great forwardness, as 
have been all our autumnal occupations. 
Some partial and temporary interruptions to. 
getting in the wheat seed occurred, from the dry and bound state of the soil, which was 
fortunately relieved by intervening showers; indeed, this drought was a feather in the . 
scale of.interruption, compared with, we are almost ashamed to repeat, the nearly universal 
foul state of the lands, the report of which is echoed from one end of the island to the 
other... The couch grass and weeds bore such a luxuriant head, in many parts, that it 
was found no easy matter to cover the seed: and on such Jands the young wheats have 
come up so thin and poor, that it has not been judged prudent to risk the crop: it has 
been ploughed up, and, in all probability, the season and the labour have been lost. These 
foul tilths, besides abounding in couch grass, afford a most nourishing and convenient har- 
bour for the slugs, which also generally abound on clover leys. The great moisture of 
the summer season contributed infinitely to the increase of these vermin, the most effectual __ 
method for the destruction of which is heavy rolling, and treading with sheep. The 
greater part of the young wheats, however, fortunately, have the most promising appear- 
ance; and on the best lands there is some apprehension of over luxuriance. The 
opinion formerly given seems universal, that the shortness of the late crop, and the 
favourable state of the weather for sowing, have had such a powerful influence on the 
farmers, that a greater breadth of land has been sown with wheat, during the present 
season, than was ever before known in Britain. It is averred that one-fifth of the crop 
of wheat has been expended in seed. 
To recur to the late crops—we stated in our last, to the utmost verge of probability, 
the satisfactory reports; some of them, indeed, of a very flattering nature. On the 
other hand, it must not be concealed, that as we advance.i in experience of the quality and 
produce of the new wheats generally, the original opinion is fully confirmed of their 
deficiency in both respects. The uncommonly great quantities threshed have afforded 
very ample opportunities of forming a judgment. It is said that unusual quantities, for 
the season, of new barleys, likewise, have been at market. The acreable quantity of bar- 
ley was no doubt large, but the quantity of fine malting barley is at no rate so: and good 
samples of both wheat and barley must inevitably bear a high price, whatever quantity — 
may be imported; for weight and quality are peculiar and governing objects in this 
country, as the immense difference in prices, and the neglect of inferior samples, even in 
times of scarcity, amply testify. Both oats and beans bear a great price, notwithstand- 
ing their very considerable crops ; and potatoes, though abundant, are said to be dear 
in the country, as they certainly are in all large towns. From their excellent quality, 
potatoes will prove a rare addition to the stock of bread, and great quantities will be used 
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