USEFUL PROJECTS. 
Dorset, in part blighted, which 
made it produce less; the general 
average defective, but the defect 
partia!. About Yarmouth, thecrops 
one quarter measure per acre, and 
2lb. the bushel heavier, than last 
year. In Kent very defective ; and 
in the fens of Lincolnshire a mate- 
rial deficiency; all owing to the 
blight. In Hertfordshire, 15 bushels 
per acre instead of 22 or 23. The 
small supply brought toLondon since 
the last harvest; owing to the de- 
ficiency in this year’s crop, and the 
old stock being exhausted, the dith- 
culty of procuring a crop from the 
additional labour in threshing, aris- 
ing from the defective quality of the 
~ sheaves, the demand for seed-wheat, 
which perhaps this year exceeds the 
demand of ordinary years, as the 
high price leads the farmer to sow 
more seed. Wheat is generally one- 
tenth of the produce this year ; it 
will be more; and the great part of 
the supply which used to come to 
London is drawn off in consequence 
of the home demand, and the de- 
mand of other districts where the 
crop has been short. The supply 
will increase when the seed-time is 
over, which will be about the middle 
of November. No ideaof the sup- 
ply being withheld in consequence 
of combinations, which are believed 
impossible. Barley generally under- 
stood to be abundant. Oats a good 
crop, but not so many sown as be- 
fore, but more wheat. Pease a good 
crop. In Dorset, people resort to 
_barley bread, that grain being plenti- 
ful; but probably, while so applied, 
the price will not be so reasonable as 
might be expected from the crop. 
Another corn-factor states the de- 
ficiency of supply arising from the 
seed-time to be not greater at pre- 
sen!, as to English wheat, than it 
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has been for the Jast.30 years, but 
the price and demand miuch greater 
than in any part of that period. 
This demand arises from the neigh- 
bouring counties being entirely with- 
outany stock of old wheat, and send- 
ing for it to London. The defect 
is more in the want of flour, which 
is owing to the millers and mealmer 
being wholly without any stock of 
it; and that again is owing to the 
great want of wheat, and the high 
price cf it for the last three months. 
The farmers in Essex, Suffoik, and 
Norfolk, are threshing out biitey, 
fearing the price of that grain will 
fall, wall not that of wheat; and its 
produce was very abundant, not less 
than five quarters per acre. The 
pocrer people rejected standard 
wheaten .bread, not so much _ be- 
cause they thought it unwholesome, 
or did not like it, but because it 
was not universal: if there was no 
other sort, they would be content 
to eat it. 
Another says, the wheat was it 
general thin on the ground, and 
yields ili ; in consequence of blight, 
the crop of cone wheat is particu- 
larly bad; ascribes the want of sup- 
ply toa sickness among the labours 
ers, reduced from five or six ina 
barn to one or two; and the late 
rains have rendered the ground fa- 
vourable for sowing, to which the 
farmers apply the corn as fast as 
threshed. Theincrease will probably 
be considerable, as the markets in 
October are generally thin; but it 
will not be great till the seed-time 
is over. ‘he crop of wheat not 
so bad as to justify the present high 
price, though it will be probably 
higher than last year. Hedoes not 
believe the poorer inhabitants of the 
kingdom will be induced to eat 
bread made of other sorts of grain. 
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