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the treatment of them, and very small 
quantities of the.citrin ointment, or some 
stimulant lotion, will prove for the most 
part abundantly more serviceable than 
large masses of tar ointment, or other 
greasy application, with which the prac¬ 
titioners were formerly wont to plaster 
scalled heads. A small treatise, by a 
friend of the reporter, Mr. Piumbe, of 
Russell-street, will be found to contain 
some valuable hints on the disorders now 
referred to, both as it respects tlieir patho¬ 
logy and remedial demands. 
Scarlatina has lately been rather fre¬ 
quent, and the reporter has just had under 
his care a case of small-pox after vaccina¬ 
tion, which in the first blush of the busi¬ 
ness assumed a most formidable aspect, 
but which, as is almost universally the 
case, became mild and favourable at the 
precise period when, had the disease been 
unmitigated by vaccination, death would 
have claimed the subject of it as his victim. 
3). UwiNs, M.D. 
Bedford Row, Dec. 20, 1821. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT 
weather has continued, almost in- 
1 variably, since our last, in the same 
course of wind and rain, the former often 
approaching to hurricane, and the latter 
inundating all the low grounds. The da¬ 
mage, by sea and land, has beei\ unusually 
great ; and the floods and water-sodden 
state of the soil, in many parts, have pre¬ 
vented wheat sowing or fallowing' the land 
at the regular season. In the meantime, 
the mild temperature of the whole autumn 
has pushed forward all the early sown 
wheats to a height and luxuriance scarcely 
ever before witnessed. The grass and 
every green production have increased in 
an equal ratio, and all kinds of live Stock 
have been kept at a cheap rate where the 
land would bear them. There is an. uni¬ 
versal great crop of turnips, reckoning the 
foliage ; and also of mangel wur.zcl , which 
the farmers, after many years deliberation, 
have of late condescended to make trial of 
in most parts. They form an excellent sub¬ 
stitute for the turnip, on soils unfriendly to 
that root; and Mr. Gibbs, seedsman, of 
Piccadilly, gained great credit at the late 
Cattle Show, by the exhibition of fine and 
weighty specimens of his yellow mangel 
wurzelj which is the most nutritious and 
valuable of the species. There is nothing 
new io be reported of the state of the coun¬ 
try. From the mere excess of our own 
native products, both the corn and flesh 
markets have been in all parts still gradu¬ 
ally declining in price, and that even at the 
festive season of Christmas, in the metro¬ 
polis. The case of too many farmers, in 
every county, is actually desperate, h*re- 
trievabley but as every measure which 
bears the semblance of being remedial, 
ought to be circulated as extensively as 
possible, we make the following quotation 
from the Farmer’s Journal, of Dee. 17th : - 
“ To consume as much of the corn we grow 
as can possibly be kept out of the market, 
by fattening with it cattle ancl pigs 5 to feed 
our own families, servants, and labourers, 
with the produce of our farms : to use the 
greatest economy in our expenditure,and not 
embark a skilling in draining, limeing, or in 
any other permanent improvement 5 to con¬ 
fine ourselves entirely to the cleaning of 
our lands, and to be satisfied with such 
manure as our yards will afford; to lay 
down with grass seeds all lands of inferior 
quality, and at a distance from home.” It 
is said, that in Devon, Cornwall, and some 
parts of the principality, between ten and 
fifteen thousand acres of corn land have 
been thrown up this season, and are now 
lying in a state of waste. As to effectual 
remedies, our agriculturists, grossly misled 
in the first instance, have, for some time 
past, began to open their eyes to the true 
state of their case. Their distress and 
ruin have originated, neither in importa¬ 
tion, false averages, return to cash pay ¬ 
ments, nor in any of those numerous effects 
which have been so currently mistaken fur 
causes. The original, the fundamental 
cause , was the lateunjust, unnatural, and 
liberticide rear, and consequent burdens of 
taxation, too great for ike country to bear . 
Proof?—the state of the country, previous 
and subsequent. For a real, national re¬ 
medy, the country must look to the advice 
and exertions of Sir Francis Burdett, the 
landlord who raised no rents; to Mr.Hu me, 
Mr. Coke, Mr. Ricardo, and that band of 
patriots, who are so nobly struggling to 
regenerate Old England, and to give to 
every man his just share of the common 
property.” Complaints, from various part3, 
are made of landlords, who, slighting the 
general example, and indeed their own ul ¬ 
timate interest, refuse any relief to their 
distressed tenantry. In the peculiar poachy 
state of the lands, vast damage is said to 
have been done in all parts by the hunters , 
and more especially in the vicinity of the 
metropolis. Pulmonary and catarrhal af¬ 
fections, the consequence of a moist and 
variable state of the atmosphere, have pre¬ 
vailed generally among the horses in the 
western counties. 
The present has been altogether a wet 
half year; in the first half of the ye^r 
the depth of rain was below the ave¬ 
rage 
