1829 Wheat, 66*. 3^. per qr. (Official Returns). 



Barley, 32^. 6d. ; oats, 225. ^d. per qr. ; wool, 8^. per 

 Ib. ; beef and mutton, $\d. cheese, 6d. (Driver). 



Lincoln wool, yd. per Ib. Average crop (Driver). 



Inferior crop. Cold stormy summer (Times). 



Began reaping August 4 j finished harvest October 6 

 (Cox). 



Began reaping August 10 ; finished harvest Septem- 

 ber 30 (H. Baker). 



Wet and cold season. Rain from July i to October 6. 

 Great quantity of rotten sheep and beasts. In Scotland, 

 May, June, and July were unusually hot, drought was so 

 great as to kill many recently planted trees. Aurora 

 borealis in beginning of July. Floods in August (Penny 

 Magazine). 



Rain more or less every day from June 16 to Sep- 

 tember 20, being ninety-six days, except on four of them, 

 23rd and 24th July, and 3rd and 4th September ; the 

 season was not particularly cold, but the wettest in my 

 memory. The last load of oats carried on October 6 went 

 into the barn white with snow (Cox). 



Highest price for lambs at Wilton Fair, 26s. ( Wilts 

 County Mirror). 



Lambs sold at Marlborough Fair at 42^. a dozen. 

 Roasting pigs sold in Falmouth Market at 2s. each ( Wilts 

 County Mirror). 



October 7. A considerable fall of snow between i and 

 3 p.m. (Howard). 

 1829-30 Excessively severe winter (Brumham). 



Mostly rainy and stormy from July i to October 6, but 

 some very hot days occurred in the fourth week in July 

 and beginning of August ( Whistlecraft). 



July 29. Severe storms (Whistlecraft). 



Rainfall at Greenwich, 22*64 in. January, 0*36 in. 

 February, 1*17 in. March, 0*60 in. April, 4^35 in. May, 

 0-45 in. June, i -46 in. July, 378 in. August, 4-13 in. 



