Monthly Agricultural Report, 
1811 .] 
In consequence of a succession of cool weather for some time past, the house-filcs are be- 
glning to appear torpid and inactive. 
Mushrooms are very Scarce. The season has been altogether unfavourable for them, 
August 26th. The black grapea begin to change colour. Peaches arid nectarines are 
ripe 5 but, in this part of the country, the crop is a very unfavourable one. 
Augusts!. The harvest is nearly ended, and the corn will thus be housed many days 
earlier than has been known for several years past. 
I have entirely neglected to remark the departure of the swifts. They have, however, 
I believe, been some time gone, 
Hampshire. 
MONTHLY AGPHCULTURAL REPORT. 
^HE state of the wheat crop seems now to beascertained with probable accuracy, througf!-' 
■ ' out the island, as somewhat below an average quantity, and far inferior to that of last 
year, in point of quality. Reckoning both quantity and quality, persons of the most gene¬ 
ral information, decide upo.n a deficiencfy of a full third. There will be a considerable 
quantity of black vvlieat, and In many parts of the north the barley is strongly smutted. 
As has been before stated in these reports, a gradual mildew prevailed throughout the sum¬ 
mer, and, most unfortunately^, about blooming time of the wheat ; in consequence, neither 
the ear nor kernel have sufficiently filled 5 and, as the state of the weather producing the 
disease was universal, so has been the disease itself, with the fortunate exception of favour¬ 
able soils and situations, which have produced fine crops of corn. Although the mildew, 
taking it generally, ■was slight and mild, its effectstupon some unfortunate exposures were 
so considerable, that half a crop of xvheat was not obtained, and that in quality extremely 
meagre, and in part smutted. In various parts of Scotland, much wheat was broken and 
lodged by high winds, from the v/eakness of the straw, and great complaints are made from 
thence, of tillage-lands over-run with weeds, particularly knot-grass, the consequence of 
trusting to a fallow for cleaning land. From the N. W, of England, great complaints of 
the gravels scalding last summer. Spring wheats are said to have succeeded generally 
better than the autumnal. There is much indifferent corn of every species this year. 
For the above most satisfactory reasons, and from the- vast rents and accumulated taxes 
paid by the farmer, wheat continues at a high price, and is likely so to continue, when it is 
considered, that, orj the most accurate calculation which can be made, a full average crop 
is required for the annual support of our vastly increased population, without reckoning the 
extra waste of war, and supply of our allies. In the mean time, the usual ideocic cry against 
monopolizers and forestallers is bursting from many of our public prints, raised by persons 
who ought to confine their speculations to astronomy, or rather astrology, and the comet. 
These seers always complain when corn rises, taking upon themselves exclusively to tell 
the .fortune of markets j as though the terms of a bargain could possibly be any other per¬ 
son's business than of the buyer and seller themselves : as though, in a free country, the 
disposal and management of a man’s property could be taken from him ; as though the bu 3 'er 
er any body else but himself, ought to fi.x a price upon the seller’s goods : and as though 
attempted regulations of this kind had ever yet answered any good purpose. This popular 
cry, in order to be reconciled to common sense, ought instantly to be directed from the 
middlemen or corn dealers, one of the most useful and beneficial classes of society, to the 
opposers of a general inclosure bill, our natural, legitimate, and only e.T.;ctusI 
remedy. 
Little wheat seed can yet have been put into the ground, from the long drought, bat the 
present rains will make the land work, well, and which have come, it is to be hoped, in 
time for the turnips, a crop that mutt otherwise have been soon irrecoverably injured j at any 
rate the supply' of green seed must be much reduced, and the late crops of hay are extremely 
light. A considerable quantity of flax has this year been grown in the north, and almost 
intirelv from home-grown seed ; tlie crop very good. Orchards in Scotland and Wales have 
not been so fruitful as in England. Wool, universally a drug, affected in a considerable 
degree by the discouraging speculators on our dispute with America, which serves equally to 
depress manufacture and raise the price of corn. The IVierIno i.mprovement at present 
under a cloud. 
Live stock dear, considering the season, but declirxing In price. Figs most standant, and 
cheaper. 
Smithfield : Beef 4 s. to 5s. 4d —.Mutton 5s. 5d. to 6 s,—Veal 5s. to trs. 6 d.—Lamb 5s. to 73 . 
—Pork 3s. 4 d. to 6 s. 8 d.—B .tcoji 7*. Irish ditto 3s» to Si, 6 d. to 3s. 8 d.—Sxins l5s. 
30s. 
Middlesex, yitig, .25, 
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