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Seven years' average on which tithes are collected : 

 Wheat, 59^. ; barley, 365. ^d. ; oats, 24^. lod. 



Wool, igty per Ib. (T. H. B.). 



Off-going ewes made 34^. (T. H. B.). 



Off-going ewes made 33*. (John Phillips). 



At Devizes October Fair ewes 24^. to 34^. ; lambs, 2os. 

 to 26s. 



Beef and mutton, >j\d. per Ib. (T. H. B.). 



Began harvest Aug. 27 ; finished Nov. \ (T. H. B.). 



Wheat, nineteen bushels per acre ; barley, thirty-eight 

 bushels (T. H. B.). 



Harvest a fortnight behind and very wet. A remark- 

 ably cold and rainy summer ; in fact, the most disastrous 

 season known. Produced a heavy crop of straw, much 

 laid, and knocked about. Wheat very far below the 

 average ; the worst for many years. Oats fair, barley 

 good (Clarke}. 



January. Very wet February. Frosty. March. 

 Warm. Cold, late spring ; middle of May warm. Rain 

 set in about 20th, and continued through June, in which 

 month it rained every day. First half of July fine, and 

 some good hay made, then wet again till end of August. 

 Very little corn cut till September, and harvest not 

 finished till November. Some corn harvested tolerably 

 well beginning of September. Very deficient crop of 

 wheat, and the quality very bad. The temperature was 

 so low that there was little if any sprouted corn. Wheat 

 was harvested in September, but scarcely any barley 

 carried till October. Barley not bad quality, but condi- 

 tion bad, and some of it stained. Roots very bad ; plant 

 good but bulbs small. Great sheep rot (T. H. B.). 



The Christmas of 1860 is supposed to have been the 

 severest ever experienced in Britain. At 9 a.m. ther- 

 mometer 17 below freezing point (Chambers). 



July and August, 4-6 below average temperature 

 (Times). 



