Barley, 345-. 4^. ; oats, 26s. 8d. per qr. 



Wool, i s. per Ib. ; beef and mutton, 6\d. ; cheese, 6\d. 

 (Driver}. 



Lincoln wool, io\d. per Ib. 



Average crops (Driver). 



Fine hot summer. Very dry. Very little rain from 

 the time spring corn was sown till it was harvested (Old 

 Newspaper). 



Great thunderstorm August 25 (Hone}. 



Began harvest July 15 ; finished August 21 (T. Owen). 



Began harvest July 23 ; finished August 15 (Cox). 



Remarkably early harvest. Crop and condition very 

 good. Very dry in the west, and crop excellent (Clarke]. 



In many places the straw of the oats was so short that 

 it could not be reaped. It had to be pulled up with the 

 roots, yet there never was seen a heavier sample (Old 

 Newspaper). 



Hottest and driest summer known. July and August, 

 4 above average temperature (Times). 



Thermometer in June 90, in July 88 (Brumham). 



January 10. The ground covered with snow, the pools 

 with ice. 2oth. A keen frost, and the ground covered 

 with snow (Knapp). 



The spring was unusually fine and dry, and American 

 blight abounded in such incredible luxuriance that many 

 trees appeared as if they had been whitewashed (Knapp). 



In this spring, and also that of last year, the foliage of 

 our hedges was unusually mangled by the caterpillars of 

 different moths ; but in 1827 these creatures had increased 

 so much that the entire leaves of the sloe and the white 

 thorn were consumed by them ; the hedges, when con- 

 sisting of these shrubs alone, presented for miles the 

 appearance of winter sprays covered with a cottony web. 

 The other hedge plants were little injured (Knapp). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 20*71 in. January, 0*30 in. 

 February, r66 in. March, r66 in. April, 0-97 in. May, 



