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THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



Bowness, near Kendal. — " The crops of every descrip- 

 tion in this hilly district appear to look better than in 



tor them branches of trees. Ox cabbage are not grown 

 to any extent, but there are complaints about them : m* 



1 # W f * • * m 



are his remarks : — Wheat is above an average ; Oats are 

 a fair, healthy crop, though rather short ; Potatoes are 

 abundant; Grass about three-fourths of a crop, of better 

 quality than usual." — Mark Beauf>y. 



Lancashire. — Chaigeley, near Clitheroe. — "The 

 prevailing wind for the last two months has been north- 

 west, which has done ranch injury to the crops. Hay is 

 nrach later than usual, though I do not expect it to be 

 below an average. Many of the fields have reservoirs 

 for flooding, which makes them feel the want of rain less. 

 Potatoes have suffered the most, many of the sets never 

 having vegetated, from the effects of dry weather. Bean> 

 are shorter than usual, but look very promising. Pasture 

 Grass is rather below the usual average." — W. Win- 

 s tan ley. 



Woolton Lodge, Wool' on, near Liverpool. — " The 

 constant dry weather we have had for the last three 

 months has made the Hay crop very scanty ; the old 

 meadows, except on flat and moist districts, will not 

 yield one-third of a crop. We have had rain within the 

 last seven or eight days, which has improved the promise 

 of Corn. Oats and Barley will be well headed, though 

 short on the straw. Wheat looks very well. Our neigh- 

 bourhood is more occupied as dairy farms, and there is 

 a great scirrify of Grass for the cows." — Dr. Winstanley. 

 Yorkshire. — York. — "Grain crops generally look 

 well, especially Wheat. Beans are very short ; Turnips 

 promise well ; Grass is generally about half that of last 

 year, or less, especially in the calcareous districts of the 

 East Riding. Potatoes seem likely to be a good crop." 

 — - J. Backhouse. 



Hall Gate, Doncaster. — " Tn this neighbourhood, 

 although there is much sand and gravelly soil, the crops 

 have not suffered nearly so much as was apprehended. 

 I never saw Wheat look better. Hay crops have been 

 light, and in some pi ices have completely failed. Barley 

 looks fine, and other crops look well." — J. Hawley. 



Caernarvonshire. — Brynybria t near Conway 



" Owing to the continued dry weather, spring Corn and 

 Grass have suffered much. Hay crops are very light; 

 Grass is very much burnt up ; Potatoes very irregular ; 

 Barley very bad and very short; Beans and Oats are 

 very short; Wheat in general looks fair, but not heavy." 

 — J. Williams, j 



Cheshire.— Ncston.— Wheat is an average ; there is 

 very little Barley sown, but it looks well ; Oats look 

 poor ; Hay is very light, and pasture-land is burnt up ; 

 early-sown Turnips look well ; south of us Corn and 

 Potatoes look better." -W. Quay. 



Derbyshire.— Ripley.—" Owing to the continued 

 dry weather, Oats and Barley will be below an average. 

 Wheat looks remarkably well ; Flay crop is very small. 

 I was near Chesterfield a few days ago, and should say 

 the Hay crop there is near an average."— J. Rnyston. 



Hedale, High Peak.— "The crops generally loo'< 

 very well. Wheat and Barley are very good, but much 

 must depend upon the weather for the next two months ; 

 for we do not commence harvest until the end of Sept. 

 or beginning of Oct. , '— S. Langworth. 



Nottinghamshire Ruddington Grange.— " I 



never saw the Wheat universally, and the Barley gene- 

 rally, more promising to yield well. Wheat always does 

 well upon the new red "sandstone formation in a dry 

 spring; the straw is firm, and the grain appears well 

 fed. Barley short-, but good ; Beans short in the straw ; 

 Peas exceedingly well podded; Clover, where not spring 

 cut, is a fair crop, say 30 cwt. to the acre ; meadows 

 which are not irrigated are exceedingly deficient— not 

 more than one-third of a crop; Mangold Wurzel looks 

 well, and also Turnips."— C. Paget. 



High Field House, Lenton.—" Grass seems to be the 

 chief thing which has suffered by the long drought ; the 

 Hay crop will not reach half an average ; Clover and 

 leeds look rather better; Wheat looks very well, and 

 also Barley, though the latter is rather short on the 

 straw. Oats, I fear, will not reach an average, and will 

 be very short; Beans had, a few weeks ago, the appear- 

 ance of a wretched crop, but are vastly improved ; Pea-, 

 I think, will not attain an average ; Potatoes look won- 

 derfully well, excepting when on the sandstone rock, 

 which are not so promising. Turnips look well, though we 

 have a few exceptions, some fields having been totally 

 destroyed by the fly. The soil generally is a rich clay, 

 but part is on a s?nd»tone bottom ; on the latter the 

 crops have suffered much for the want of rain, for we 

 had scarcely any in the months of April, May, and June. 

 Fruit is very abundant.' 7 — E. J. Lowe. 



Marston Grange, Retford.—" I do not consider the 

 ettects of the weather will be serious to the crops. Wheat 

 appears very good and rather early. Spring-sown Corn 

 has not such a good prospect."- J*. Houghkinson. 



J ^TlT'" /l ' -'on. -"Crop, are greatly im- 

 proved by the late rains. Wheat will be an average ; 



Uats and Beans deficient • RirW ;■ «^ i 



», . . , . j~T ' r » arle y is not grown here ; 



Potatoes fair crop. The meadows are very light."-*. 



SHROPsniRK.-rrhiltinglon Rectory, near Osrestry. 

 —"The pastures are very bare, and Hay very deficient, 

 being only one-third of the usual crop ; Potatoes will 

 not be half the usual crop ; Turnips are very unpromis- 

 ing ; much Oats and Barley are short, (the former 6 inches 

 high on poor day land); Wheat short but very clean and 

 good. With respect to cattle much depends upon the 

 weather for the next six months. Some farmers have 

 mowed their Oats to give to their cattle ; others have cat 



•Staffordshire.— Forsbrook R'c'ory, near Stone. 

 " I find the last rain in April was on the 5th ; wind In 

 that month from N.W. to N.E-; thermometer from 40° 

 to 46°, barometer from 29.400 to 29.800; no rain in 

 May, and wind almost always N.E. to E. In June a 

 siightshoweron24th, two hours' rain on 25th, and in July 

 24 hours' rain on 4th; wind in June and July being 

 chiefly N.W. I have been in various parts of the country, 

 but I see we are more favoured than other places, tlie 

 land not being dra ned, and full of springs, which has 

 suited this season ; Wheat is thin but well headed, (straw 

 about 3 feet G inches high); Oats average from 2 to 3ft. 

 6 inches high ; Barley good (not much sown); Potatoes 

 have failed generally; I have seen no Turnips— those 

 sown in first wtek in May never came up till the rain in 

 June, and then the fly took them ; Clover does no- 

 average above 10 cwt. to 15 cwt. per acre; Hay and the 

 meadow land, where it is not watered, fa a burlesque upon 

 Hay-making."— J. Curtis. 



Leicestershire.— Castle Donnington, {Rectory).— 

 " Hay' and Grass have suffered very much from the dry 

 weather ; crop very small. Wheat is very good ; Barley 

 and Oats have suffered much from tlie dryness, but since 

 the rain fell have much improved, probably the crop wiil 

 be below an average; Peas and Beans look very well, 

 except the latter in places, which look badly ; these are 

 observations on the hills which are red clay, of the new 

 red sand-stone formation. With regard to the crops in 

 the valley of the Trent, which is composed of gravel and 

 alluvial soil, Wheat is better than average, excepting 

 partial failures on the gravel; Hay and Griss very fail- 

 ing; Barley much improved and likely to be nearly an 

 average; Oats less favourable; Peas good, Beans improv- 

 ing, but it is doubtful if they will reach an average." 



S. K. Swann. 



Charwood Forest.—" The crops are rather late, though 

 they look well on the whole. Wheat is rather thin, but 

 wiil be an average. Oats are very short ; Barley full of 

 weeds ; Hay-crops remarkably light. Turnips and Po- 

 tatoes look well." — E.J. Lowe. 



RvTLASD.—Emfingham.—" The depth of rain fallen 

 during the spring quarter was only 1.52 inches, which is 

 not much more than half the quantity that fell in the cor- 

 responding quarter of the remarkable year 1826, and the 

 mean temperature in the shade was 10° greater than the 

 average of several years recorded by Luke Howard, Esq., 

 in his * Climate of London.' Wheat is a splendid crop, 

 owing to the dry weather; Barley was very little sown— 

 some was sown so late as 21st June ; the crop is very 

 thin, and the late rain has caused a second crop to spring 

 up ; there will not be above one-third of a crop, and the 

 quality very inferior— on cold land the crop looks well; 

 Oats look very well, but short; Beans and Peas fall short 

 of an average; Tares the worst ever known."— W. 

 Fancourt. 



Herefordshire.— " Wheat is a very good crop; 

 Barley a complete failure ; the same may be s*ii of the 

 Hay crop; Oats are light."— ./. WiUker, Worcester^ 



Worcestershire Houeybrooke House, Kidder- 

 minster. — "The long dry weather has been most detri- 

 mental to the Hay crops, not having any rain worth 

 notice from Good Friday till 2d July; the generality of 

 the crop is not more than half a ton an acre, while last 

 year they were able to procure more than one and a-hatf 

 ton. The grain is better than could have been expected— 

 I should think on the whole a fair crop. The Potatoes 

 turn out very b^dly, and as this is a Potato countrv, the 

 loss will be considerable." — A. Talbot. 



t ^l, A . RU ' ICKSHIRE -"~ 38 ' Waterloo-street, Birmingham. 

 — Tne Grass crop has been almost universally a failure 

 One gentleman cut only six tons from 20 acres ; even low 

 lands have been barren of produce. Wheat is an average; 

 Rye an average ; Oats rather deficient-tliey equal about 

 twcMhirdsof a good crop; Barley is still worse, not 

 more than half a crop ; Beans are worse still; between 

 frost and drought they will not reach more than one-third 

 uf^a^od return; Turnips are promising."- S. Wright, 



Northampton. — Courteen Hall. — " Wheat is an 

 average, the heavy and deep soils making up any defi- 

 ciency there may be in the light and sandy lands: Barley, 

 ieans and Oats, are no doubt a failure. Hay there is 

 literacy speaking, none ; Turnips look well."— W. Grey. 



Huntingdonshire. -Little Barf or d Rectory, St. 



u-i' i~ \ • my 8ltuation on the plastic days, the 

 Wheat m thin wi h a good head ; Peas ditto ; Tares and 

 Mangold Worzel almost a faMure."-J. Arlington. 



Cambridge..^.-" Wheat is an average; Barley 

 good on heavy land, but very bad and late on light soils ; 

 many fields hare been drilled in since 25th June. Oats 

 on tlie high lands are bad, but on the Fens it will prove 

 a good crap ; Peas, though short, are well-podded and 

 full; Beans are much improved of late; Hay crop n 

 very poor; 2d crop of Clover looks well; Turnips (as 

 •ome farmers say) look patchy, being two crops— those up 

 before the rains, and those since; but on the whole I think 

 they look well." — G. Archer. 



Olservatorxj.—" Wheat crop fine ; Barley has failed 

 very much, owing to the continued dry wearher in spring 

 preventing proper tillage. No Oats sown here ; Hay 



very lighr."— «/. Gtaisher. 



Norfolk. — East Dereham. — " An average harvest 



the Corn not being injured by the drought.'*" J. Peto. 



Pulham, Harleston — "Wemay anticipate a full average 

 crop. Barley will be inferior, part of the seed having 



[Aug. lo, 



vegetated since the rains, so that the crops will com,, i 

 at twi.-e ; early sown Barley is very good-on the who* 

 we shall have three-quarters of an average ; Oats betS 

 than Barley, but are very little grown. The rain came in 

 time to save the Pea crop, which will be an averaze 

 Beans have suffered very severely by the drou«>ht then! 

 will not be above half a crop. "-R.B. Harvey 



SvFFOLK.-Thwaite.—" The recent effect of' copiou. 

 showers has wrought magic in our fields ; the Cc-nT 

 except on light soils, is looking exceedinglv fine • finJ 

 Wheat I never saw."— O. Whistlecraft. ' 



^ Essex.— Kelvedon.—^ Wheat looks excellent; the 

 yield will be eight bushels more per acre than last year 

 Barley, Oats, &c, were looking bad, but the late rains 

 have made a wonderful difference. A few days since we 

 had a heavy mildew, which I am afraid will do injury. I 

 was lately through part of Suffolk and the crops look 

 very well." — W. Wiseman. 



Saffron- Walden — "The effects of the weather have 

 been to reduce the Hay crops to quarter the usual 

 average; Oats and Barley bad, except that early sown • 

 Beans and Peas very dwarf. Clover and Trefoil almost de- 

 stroyed on the lighter soils; Wheat a good crop, except 

 in gravelly soils. Sinne the rains Oats and Barley have 

 greaily improved." — T. Spurgin. 



Dunmow.—" Wheat a good crop, though short in 

 some places ; Barley on clay lands, and where early sown 

 exceedingly good. In the Ruthing district, doubtless 

 there will be a full average. I have had brought to me 

 an ear of Barley having eighteen kernels on each side 

 and some of twenty have been picked from the same 

 piece. Peas, though not generally a large crop, yet 

 greater than anticipated ; Beans very bad ; few Oati 

 sown, but what are, look bad; Turnips looking well; 

 Mangold Wurzel nearly a failure." — A. Barfield. 



Kent.— Sandwich. — "Wheat generally very good; 

 Barley light and thin ; Oats an average; Peas a very short 

 crop; Beans likely to improve, but not very abundant." 

 — W. H. Wetkes. 



Sussex. — Parham, Petworth.— u U the weather prove 

 favourable there will be an average crop of Wheat ; the 

 Lent Corn is far from being good; Oats, Peas, Beans, and 

 Barley, are all defective. The Hay crop is very light, 

 many farmers not gathering more than half a load per 

 acre." — J. Morton. 



Surrey. — Godstone. — " Dry weather commenced on 

 25th March and continued till 25th June, when we had 

 a heavy storm followed by showery weather. Wheat 

 more than an average; early sown Barley very good, late 

 sown quarter less than an average ; Oats an average ; 

 Beans very indifferent, full of blight, never can be an 

 average; Peas very good; Turnips look remarkably well.* 

 — E. S teaming. 



Middlesex. — "Hay is far below average; Wheat 

 generally fine ; Oats and Barley thin and light; Turnips 

 do well ; Potatoes are not defective. Great abundanci 

 of fruit."— Jr. //. Whit?, Royal Adelaide Gallery, 

 London, 



Hertfordshire. — Redbourn. — " Wheat, with few 

 exceptions, is above an average ; Barley very bad, one 

 patch beinj; in full ear, the next only just up; wliat little 

 was sown early looks better (great deal sown from 19th 

 to 24th June); Oats, where sown late, suffer like Barley, 

 but from what I see there will be near an average. The 

 meadow Grass and Clover, with very few exceptions, were 

 quite burnt up, so much so, that in many places they 

 could not, on our flinty land, be mown at all. The fly 

 has made great ravages amongst the early sown Swedes* 

 the ground was in a bad state for their reception, being 

 in dry hard lumps ; the later sown Swedes and Turnips 

 are exceedingly promising ; Vetches, except where early 

 sown, are very bad, both for green food and for seeding ; 

 the cold wet weather in February and March seemed to 

 perish mine, which were rather late and on strong land,- 

 Peas btlow an average, and Be*ns average not more than 

 12 inches high*"— AT. B. Burnham. 



Bedfordshire.- Luton.— " Wheat is very promis- 





late sown 

 Grass crop 

 not 



BEDFORDSHIRE. — Luton. — u hcbu » — •. r r — 



ing ; Barley and Oats have suffered considerably on dry 



gravelly soil, but the late rains have done wonders 



towards restoring the early sown Barley; the 



has, in many instances, not come up at. all. 



is very short; meadow Grass, in some instances, is not 



sufficiently abundant to pay for the lab >ur of making , 



there are some good crops in damp situations, by river 



sides, &c."—W. Phillips. ,. 



Buckinghamshire.— High M y combe.— l&e uis 



handing Aped; 



tinguishing feature of the season, comprehending ap"^ 

 May, and June, has been extreme dryness.^ Ine ran 

 fallen during the three months only 153/ m. ; 

 next least quantity which fell in the same three monins 

 during the Inst 21 years was -2-<J90 in., and that oc- 

 curred in 1834. But in further proof of th dryness o 

 this season, I may state that the least quantity otrainm 



» * ;i ;„ tUa Ir»«tr nprtml heinre mentioned, 



Wheat very 



the excess is only 0*043 in., when the drie 

 of all that occurred in 21 years were taken, 

 fine and abundant ; Barley and Oats very good— former 

 better in quality than produce. — J. G. Tatem. 

 Oxfordshire. — JL-nley-on-T homes. 



.*• On the Chi- 



turn lulls, which are chalk with more or less cl*y,\< heat 

 looks very well. Around Henley the Wheat will he» 

 very abundant crop, many ears producing four » ut ?^ 

 grains in each spikelet. I can collect ma«y contain*"* 

 80 grains in each ; but these are some of my n« w van* 

 Early sown Oats and Barley are good, but the litfe 



