= AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR MARCH, 197° 
"The long continuance of dry weatlier has, “in the’ prefent feafon; highly Pe 
of the Farmers. The feed was never got in better, nor earlier. The.Beans, Pras, and OaTs, 
ate all in the ground; and the fallows, for the enfaing fummer, ; and for ‘Turn LPS, have becn 
ploughed, in great perfection.” ¥ 
The fevere frofts;-whieh were mentioned in our lat Report, as ‘having “much affetted the appear-' 
ance of the wheat, has fince materially, if not irrecoverab'y, injured it. So alarming: 2a* change, 
in fo fhort a period, has felcom béen experienced, in that fort of grain The injury has been felt 
generally as well in North as in South Britain ; and particularly on “light and poor foils : in Norch 
Exitain, the icc was frequently, in a fingle night, half an inch, thick. The fame effects of the 
prevalence of Eafterly winds have been felt, ‘thou: h not in fo great a. degree, by the fo wn grafles, 
which, in moft places, appear very dead and unpromifing, 
The fuilore of the tutnips,. and the backwardnets of the grafs; Sadded to the fcarcity of a cir” 
culating medium, have had confiderable effect on the prices of ae caitle and fheep,. which have 
fajlen from 20 to 30 per cent. Sheep ftock are peor, and the ewes, In confequence, will be fhort_ 
of milk for the Eeabe -.Fat cattle, however, ftiH her their pyices. In Smithfield market, 
Brer fetches from 38> 4d. to 4s. 2d. per fone avd Metros; “Forit 4s. to 5s. 
ee price ot Bena at fome of the iate fairs, has rather increafed 5 arifing probably from 
e demand for the ¢ prot ional cavalry. SP Spee po 
ae for f2ccnig, continue very high ; the price of ‘Bacon ds, however, reduced. 
Wow has fallen above2s. per tod. 
Hops——Kent, in bags, fell from 4}. ros. to 61. 6s.; in pockets, 51. tog). 7s. 
- WHEAT, by ‘the: Tat offical return, averages throughout England and ae at 495. per 
> garter. —Bakiey = gd. ae e 
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debted for fome.of the mof valuable material: of our Mifcellany, to the: 
favours of our numercas:Cerre!pondents; we tralt, we fhall obtain the-credit 
of being neither infifferens, nor in attentive, to a communications ;*and-- 
ho wever dilatory we may appear, in the fafertion of anproved’ pieces 3-or 
faftidious in the rejetion ef fuch as do not fuit our purpofe; we hope, thata - 
few reflections will fuinee, to fhow, that.we have; and can have; nothing-el{s 
4o view, but the imtereft of oar Keaders, and the eredit-of onr Work. ~ = >: 
Let it be confidered, that. we are not only obliged to confult the intrinfie 
value of the pieces fent us, but their length, their novelty, and their fuitables 
neis toa Mifcellany of this kind, which cannot enter, with great depth ~and 
minetenefs, into azy fudjec, and icarcely at all-into me. Let it» be confis” 
dered, that to ea¢h Monthly Publication, much varie ety 1s neceflary 5 3 and that 
he tedioufnefs of dweiling too long upon any one topic, is, by all means, to 
be. avoided=-that certain fubjedts are of a temporary nature, and, therefore, - 
claim precedence, in pont of time, over others, that areof all feafons—that 
fome would invelve jong, and, per maps, angry controverfy—and that, in ge- 
neral, the feelings of a ‘writer, with refpeet to the Importance of his’fubjet, 
and his menner of treating it, caanot exactly correfpond with thofe of an 
indifferent reader. 
We perceive, that fome of our correfpondents think: themielves etpledibd, 
by our not giving explicit notice, whether their communications are appreved, © . 
or rejected ; together with the caufes of delay, or rejeétion, _ Were they to. 
fee the vaft accumulation of papersaround us, they would, perhaps, excufe 
us a tak, which we cannot conceive of much importance; befides, that with 
refpect to many pieces, our determination is not feen.made, and finally de- - 
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deficient in efential requifites, not violating commen decorums, not running 
into tedicus prohxity, favears us with his ‘thoughts on an admiffible fubject, 
eur firit-idea is, to give them infertion; though the time when, may often be 
a matter cf doubt; and it may happen, that a relviplicity of other commu~ 
nicdtions may caufe a lene adjournment. On the Eatie: ‘what we have to 
requeft is, that to the favour already done us, by the preference of our Mifcele 
lany, as a vehicle for their procudtions, our friendsowoald add, that of a can= 
did and patient reliance on our judgment and gocd imtentions, in making our 
feleciion. . 
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