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The spring was singularly cold and ungenial ; a series 

 of dry east winds prevailed for many weeks together, and 

 made the hay crops greatly deficient, the price of which 

 rose in the following winter to ;n the load. The spring 

 crops and wheat were generally thin upon the ground, 

 but, in consequence of the weather becoming fine im- 

 mediately preceding the harvest, and the fine weather 

 during the harvest, the produce turned out to be rather 

 better than had at one time been apprehended (Tooke). 



More than three-fourths of the wheat crop destroyed 

 by the frost of the previous winter; but the berry was 

 remarkably fine (Notes of a Dorset Farmer). 

 1811 Wheat, 955. $d. per qr. (Official Returns). 



Barley, 42^. $d. ; oats, 275. 7^. per qr. ; wool, 2s. id. ; 

 beef and mutton, 8f d. ; cheese, 8 \d. per Ib. (Driver). 



Deficient harvest (Driver). 



Wet and cold season, f of an average crop. The pea 

 crop a general failure, in many cases barely the seed 

 (Murray). 



Wheat suffered as much from blight this year as from 

 frost in 1810 (Stevenson). 



Thames frozen over on January 7 (Boyle). 



Five-eighths of an average crop. High winds at 

 blossoming time, and little sun and heat at harvest 

 (Clarke). 



Began reaping July 24. Finished harvest August 26 

 (Cox). 



A very severe frost set in at the beginning of January. 

 On the 8th the Thames was so. much frozen that there 

 was only a narrow channel in the centre free from ice. 

 The banks of the river were so firmly set with ice and 

 snow that people could walk upon it from Battersea Bridge 

 to Hungerford Stairs (W. Thornbury). 



Mildew in wheat (Times). 



July and August 17 below average temperature 

 (Times). 



