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Nottingham. E. G. Lowe, Esq., F.R.A.S. 



The following are the present appearances of the crops in 

 this neighbourhood : — Wheat fully an average, and looks very 

 promising. 



Oats and barley will be a poor crop on hot sandy land, and 

 very short in the straw. On cold clay lands it is likely to 

 be good. On the whole they will be both below an average, 

 as the dry hot weather in June, which was very favourable to 

 wheat, was quite the reverse to oats and barley. 



The hay crop will be much below an average. Much has 

 been cut, but the recent rain has prevented half of this from 

 being as yet housed. 



Beans and peas are but little grown about here ; but where 

 they can grow, they are spoken favourably of. 



Turnips and mangelwurzel are good in some localities and 

 bad in others. 



Clover has not been an average. 



Amongst fruit, currants and gooseberries are exceedingly 

 abundant, especially the latter ; and there are plenty of straw- 

 berries. Apples, pears and plums will be very deficient, 

 although in some places the latter are abundant. Apricots, 

 peaches and nectarines are very deficient, though the former 

 has turned out the best crop of the three. 



Hawarden near Chester. From Dr. Moffatt. 



From early in March to the beginning of June, oats, barley, 

 potatoes, turnips^ &c. were put into the ground in their season; 

 the seed time was a very favourable one, and the land was in 

 good condition for its cultivation. From the extreme cold 

 which prevailed at the end of March and beginning of April, 

 and the want of rain from the middle of April to the second 

 week in May, grass was scanty, and cattle were not turned 

 out so early as usual ; but the rains of the end of May and 

 beginning of June were just in time to retrieve the coming 

 crop from its wavering condition. 



Potatoes have been planted to a greater extent in this than 

 in former years ; and if we may judge of their condition from 

 the appearance of the stalk, &c, they are healthy. There 

 are rumours however of " the disease." I find that everybody 

 has heard of a reappearance of the disease, but it has not been 

 seen by any one in this immediate locality. 



Turnips look well, and I have not heard of the usual com- 

 plaints of "fly" and " worm." Disease has been very com- 

 mon among cattle since the end of last March, and many 

 farmers have had serious losses; indeed, one informed me, 

 the other day, that since the 16th of that month he had lost 

 ten cows from disease of the lungs. 



