3 
31—1848.] THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
PRESENT APPEARANCE OF THE CROPS—continued. 
piir ; rocks AT PRESENT HELD OF 
COUNTY. WHEAT. | BARLEY, | OATS. | BEANS. | PEAS. TURNIPS. | HAY. | ae | BARLEY. | oats, 
ENGLAND. | | 
oe Unfavourable Under average Above average Under average Very bad 2 by Good erop As usual None Small 
slugs 
One-fourth below One-third Average Bad Bad Average % ( 
average below average 
Not good Not good Good Average Light Good Light More a None None 
usu 
Average Middling Very good Good None Good Below average | Below average None * of 
ast u 
Under average Backward Average Under average Under average Backward Average Very little None e J . 
Average Good Partial crop Blighted Partial crop Good Bad Average Very little Few 
Under average Average Average Average Under average Favourable Under average Average Under average Under average we 8 
. ut 
Isk or Wienr., Under average Fair Average Fair Middling Well Injured Average Short None —. * 
Sussex ... Below Average Good Below average Bad Bad Good Average Little Little Litte g 2 Cuck- 
Good Good Good Looking well Blighted Well Average Moss than Small Small k. Wrarr, Chidham, 
t 
$ below last ear] Promising Well Average Average Favourable Damaged More "han aren As usual Oy, Be VALENTINE, 
A. w 
à below average Below average Average ł below Halfacrop | Promising Abundant is Grai Not much Little J. — ‘Stoning. 
average ton, 
Scarcely average | Not average Good Deficient Average Good appear-| Abundant Moderate Short Moderate |T, — 
Conx wal. Very promising Excellent Good Capital... eee Inferior % : E hoe ieii W. yr Cus- 
Under average Good Good Indifferent Bad —— N Very little None Very little J. ETERS, B Stratton. 
Average Average Good r g kio hake Indiffer Good Little None * — J. Ronxnrs, 8 
Thin Bad / A Scie wing Short Little Little Few —, Truro, 
Average Looking fine Looking well.. . fy the Average Average Scarcely any None Jno. MironzzL, Tro- 
Thin Good Healthy- tii boone.. i isai Injured’ by the| Good produce 1 quan- Small stock Very little n Hos, Tregear, 
t 
DEvon ... «| Under average Fair Heavy Bad Blighted Fair Well Above average Small Small G. Ash- 
20 per cent. belon Average AVOTRZO ese Faiiure Average Good Thrice the ee E S S. * 3 Kings- 
average usual quantity E eis — 
Below average Zelow average] Average | ...... Failure Promise good | Pretty fair As usual Small Small i FowLER, 
a 
Sotieties. were so considerably swollen as to render them disfigured the first to eae — fatal 2 So mem 
and unsightly. The — — was not —— in that alarmed, indeed e graziers in neighbour- 
A ee e Path ZUAND. part of the coun but sheep of so f Mr. hood of Colchester become, in consequence of the losses 
York, on Monday, the 10th July: — Earl of Woods’ neighbours had also dea d * Me had, which cere occurred in that part of Essex, that man 
Vaiba 92 * in 2 5 ike of ‘Rick however, seen none in the market so affected, although | of those whose pastures lay adjoining the publie roads 
mond: Rael of p Å Give, M P some thousands of sheep were taken thither once a or lanes had fi fenced in the entrances to their fields by 
i Johnstone, Bt., M P. ; Mr. N 3 ’| fortnight. His own sheep had never been 2 $ - —.— formed of a eee “Gore ts other 
Boot nor did droves or strange sheep pass by. The com- bushes in — it and the gate, for the pur- 
a $ Tr ll Cro: hs — 3 ne plaint made its appearance at once, a great number pose of obstructing all communication whatever be- 
Hobbs; Mr x Hides M. P. W ‘tansfiel d, M. P.; being attacked in the course of a couple of days. — tween their own flocks and those of stran, Three- 
Mr. C Hampden sedi *3 Geox Mr. ARD infor e Council ithat five or six | quarters p ay 80, 8 5 y Carr, an: 
The thei Me Georgo the — a years ago a flock of his Leicester sheep in Nottingham- | honorary member of the & Society, residing near Liibeck, 
of business brought before them in connexion shire were attacked by a similar distemper, of which on being e acquainted, — public as well as 
with the details of the York e 1 many of them died; but the skins of the animals, on private channels nd commu nication, with the fact of 
A Special Couxcil. was held at the Guil ihall, York, removal from the body, were not found to be affected. to England (by ti eep 
Friday, the 14th of July; present, the E Í i —Sir Joux TYRELL concurred with Mr. Milward in | from Hamburgh) of t the malady under consid and 
Ya ilh im the Chai ‘EE = P N ing the complaint in Mr. Woods’ sheep, as | with the ravages of which, in Germany, he was so well 
R. N.; Sir M. W —— a Sir John Johnstone, totally distinct from the fearful disease which had now | aware, immediately a da of w. g 
Bt., IM. P.; Ar. Bes 7, * Chall ma . Eng r 
$ pox D. g press, 2 y t at i 
Be eee Ars Ses land) ad |fe a more severe form. on the appearance of the disease in any 
The Sir Joux TYRELL then reported to the Council the | locality. Immediately afterwards, he addressed a more 
of the Council was confin to the i i 
from prevalence of the small-pox among sheep in Essex, | detailed letter to the Council, on the causes, 
8 g Me. Mauleverer of . N tao laint re- He * engen and Wiltshire, although he believed thas a are and cure of — — 2 That letter was at 
0 ussex Down flocks were at present free. He had | once nly made k mem in 
e of the disease three-quarters of a year ago, and N a — —2 (lg 489) but published at 
to to ordering the pay yment t of various sums of pong 
discharge of local claims ; to the rate of payment to 
lately of its occurrence in Rochford and Dengey a chea n the form o 37588 for general. 
labourers in the 2 * Oerang ngage 8 een in Essex, but had now experienced al — tn isin e "armer of the — i and 
3 an Ap ddia — . the Norwic f| cases among his own sheep. The first case occurred | Mr. Hobbs, thinking t poate “might occur; 
1 Po y 5 5 in a flock consisting of 92 fat ewes (with their had himself taken mep por su opportunity of recom-- 
of the Council with the conduct of tas ad y e vs lambs) fed on oil-cake, which were taken ill on tlie mendi g its insertion in the Essex Standard for the 
des Wal bake de a ig aae "ia a, agis revious Wednesday, an minis information of the f. in the eastern part of that 
Mr, Foster, secre y to sha oak Local Co ittee. fi them, The other case was that of a 4-year old wether, county ; a step which, unfortunately, proved to be most 
thè zealots disé of his duties of that da. a tOr | which occurred the previous morning, when the animal | requisi within one week from that time, a cargo 
422 he hel ged the Scat at H was immediately killed. The disease in both those | of diseased sheep arrived in London from the Continent, 
in Hanover-square hae Daene 82 y pes red cases was distinctly evident on the rag and — — and were sold in Smithfield market. Mr. Hobbs then 
of July: e Colon l min: S d sh ir; the sheep, the outer skin being affected in those parts | quoted numerous cases of the disease in that part of 
1 nsr] 5 1 Bar 1 s any | With dark red blotches. Those skins having —— the country ; and parti y referred to the case of 
lla Mies Sat? 14 B 2 Paka Hobbs, Mr. rejected by the 9 had been submitted by Sir Mr. Baker, of Birch Hall, near Kirby, who having pur- 
Kinder, Mr. G. W. Maddis Mr. Milward, ME C E. John Tyrell to th e er tion of Sir Benjamin Brodie, chased about 100 sheep in market, and put 
re 0 rol. Sewell, Prof. $i nda, M ERT üd. the eminent surgeon, as well a ok go r. Tomkins them along with the rest of his flock, soon found symp- 
Oe og bbe ee bant 2 weeds of the National faccine Institution, He believed there | toms of small-pox become visible among the i 
The foll 5 ele a: had been ersy among the first — men sheep, of which some died on the spot, while the 
Aor el Sgt rs were elected : gardi sissies af tanta small-pox, but that inder, without loss of time, were returned upon the 
a . Herts. now it was generally a tha c vi he had obtained 
Davie, Sir H. Ferguson, Bart., Creedy, Crediton, Devon being a poison, the system required sustaining in its them, not however without having left behind them. 
à Dirree Hast, Bart., Lullington Castle, Kent 3 and not exhausting by bleeding and eae that ¢ taint of — which so much affected Mr. Baker's 
"WEE Hkh Waiver —ę—•— Oton He had been recommended to adopt the plan of vae-| own sheep, that within 10 days from the date of p 
Foster, John, Lingodell, Tickhill, Yorkshire cination, i ucing the v. — lymph, agreeably with | chase he was the necessity of pomp do 
W. J amuel, Sion-hill, Thirsk, Yorkshire Mr. Tomkins’s suggestion, behind the ear of th , | than 50 — of them Page, 
Robert, Jun., Hemsby, Great Yarmouth so that the animal might not be able to disturb the who resided incurred 
Darley, „ Stamford-bridge, York pustules by mechanical friction. Although Sir John | a loss of more than 500. from the small-pox among his 
Bole ard, * Weiford, Su Suffolk Tyrellľ’s sheep were near a road, and might have taken | sheep; and to that of Mr. Muskett, of Norfolk, who, 
ll, William, Intw ood, Norwich the disease by direct communication, he knew of cases, | from the same cause, and in a period of about 10 days, 
Datison, Joseph, Str aha. steat aves 0 particularly of that of the Hon. Mr. Petre, where the had lost upwards of 12 score of his flock ; 1 
The un Edmund, Doncaster. sheep had been long kept in an isolated state. —Mr. | farmers, who had been deprived of nearly one-half of 
le names of 19 candidates for election at the next} Fisaer Honns was very glad that Sir John Tyrell had their sheep, were oe ruined by the ravages of the 
meeting were then read, attended the Council that day, and brought under the | disease. On the other hand, Mr. reason to 
Diskases AMONG SHEEP.—Mr, LEYLAND Woops, of — of the members the very important and serious believe that the dealers made a secret of the disease for 
Con srate, near near Chichester, addressed a letter to the | question of the small-pox sheep, introduced into | the purpose of getting rid of their 3 with the in- 
among I e] : E j 
on the subject "of a — whieh” had | this country by foreign importation of animals suffering | tention of making no new purchases ; he having met 
2 appearance his sheep. ana from that fearful malady. He was afraid that the dis- | with only a single individual in Colchester market who 
e i i skno’ e in his case 
sore an 
his 
ee m out, chiefly round the 
soreness, however, seeming to exi 
Odour wine ums. The “éraptions "hal. a a the 
Proceeding from them, and prevented the scp 
food with ease, lambs w the 
Deas the 
ter. The stronger sheep suffered more | 
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