1 7 s Mr. Barker’s Register, &c. 
being just in the long days, in the high strong sun, and when 
all the crops should be in their greatest growth, the) 
much hurt by it, and perhaps the more so for having been be- 
fore oversoaked with snow and wet. The latter part of the 
summer was very fine, rain enough to make the grass grow 
and fine enough to get the crops in well; great eddishes, and 
more grass than there had been in any part of the summer be- 
fore And when in September and November there came two 
wet months, the cracks and dryness of the ground underneath 
carried it all clear off. The. autumn also was remarkably fine, 
calm, mild, and almost without frost, so that the grass conti- 
nued green till Christmas, which was very useful to the 
farmers, as it saved their fodder very much, which was very 
scarce. 
