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88 AR OURO RE. 
[ Feb. 
Monthly Report for February. 
{This Article will beregularly made up from an aé?a/ Corre{pondence, eftablithed in about twenty 
Difiri@s, throughout Great Britain. The Failure of fome of our Correfpondents this Month 
has, however, prevented our perfecting this lan, agreeably to our firft Intention. In future 
Numbers, we truft we fhall be enabled to do Juftice to fo mportant a Subje&.] 
FYXHE reports this month from the 
A feveral diftriéts, contaia the agree- 
able information, that far more wheat 
has been fown this year than ufual, 
and that the farmers are already bufily 
engayed in fowing their fpring corn, 
a This circumitance, by the confumption 
of feed, cannot but tend for the pre- 
fent to .occafion a triflmg advance of 
grain in general, though it muft tend 
eventually to a reduétion. (No opinion 
of the next year’s crop can as yet be 
formed from its prefent full and pro- 
mifing appearance, as, from the uncom- 
mon mildnefs of the feafon, and the 
Jate general rains, the crops of wheat 
promife equally well in good and bad 
foils, and whether properly or impro- 
perly cultivated. 
In confequence of the late mild 
weather, the land is now in excellent 
order for breaking up the wheat ftubble, 
and receiving the crops of barley and 
eats. Inthe weftern diftricis, this will 
commence in about a fortnight. 
Grafles, and every kind of herbage, 
zre in the moft luxuriant and forward 
ftate. In the grazing counties, there is 
a profufion of turnip-tops, and other 
winter greens: this cannot fail in a fhort 
time to bring down the price of mutton 
confiderably, as the grafs mutton will 
fpeedily overtake the turnip fupply at 
Smithfield market. The late dry wea- 
ther has been favourable to the improve- 
ment of fheep; in the month of Janu- 
ary, the continuance of rainy and ftormy 
weather was injurious, and occafioned 
them to look thin, efpecially on the fea 
coaft. 
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Milch cows and fat cattle were never 
fo fearce and dear, in the memory. of 
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experienced graziers, as at prefent; an@ 
they are likely to remain fo for fome 
time. The price of ftores will of courfe 
be on the advance.. Ufeful horfes, on 
account of the continued demand for the 
army, are every where rifing in price. 
Although keep of ail forts is fo high, 
yet ficre pigs were never known to fetch 
better prices, 
The market for the laft month has 
been very heavy for hops; bags have 
been from 50 te 96s. and peckets have 
fold from 7os. to 5 guineas the ewt. 
Cheefe ftill keeps up an extravagant 
price ; it fetches in the fouthern counties, 
from 49 to 53s. for prime dairies. 
‘Wheat has experienced a fingular-fuc- 
tuation during the laft month, as may be 
obferved in the following ftlatement of 
average market prices in fix counties, in 
correfponding weeks of January and 
February. 
Lincoln jan. o7 enor gee 
Northampton Jan. 93. Feb. 8. 
Leicefter Jan. 95. Feb. 106. 
Wilts (fan. 9420" Bebs gee 
Durham. Jan. 88. Feb. 106, 
Mark-lane Jan. 96. Feb. 103. 
In Mark-lane, Leicefter, and Durham, 
it appears to have rifen confiderably ; 
whereas in the markets of Lincoln, 
Northampton, and Wiultfhire, there has 
been a’ moderate reduction. Perhaps 
this variation in the ebb and flow, gees a 
good way to prove the juftice of the late 
refolutions of the Gloucefter bakers, ‘that 
the advance of price Is In a great pare 
occafioned by {peculation.” ‘The impor~ 
tation has lately been very confiderable, 
efpecially in the port of Liverpool; but, 
ina time of general war, little perma- 
nent effeé&t can be looked for from 
foreign fupplies. 
Boe BELG 
The Conductors of the Monrsty Macaztne, having proceeded thus far in the Plan and 
Execution of their work, fubmit themfelves and their Undertaking, with the utmoft de- 
ference, to the candid Difcernment of a liberal and enlightened Public. 
They are fully 
aware of the Maenitude of the Attempt they are engaged in; confcious that on ther 
fpirited exertions, and on thofe of their Correfpondents, in future, mutt depend the 
ultimate Eftablifhment of a Work adequate to the Expectations, the Tafte, and Penetra- 
tion of the Age. 
Some Parts of their Plan being entirely Original, muft, of courfe, be proportionately liable to 
- Errors and Anomalies. Such may, foffib/y, have crept into fome of the preceding Pages 
—-for thefe they do not judge themfelves to be refponfible, from any deficiency of Atten- 
ion or Sedulity ; but are obliged to plead as their Excufe, the extenfive and complicated 
Nature o the Objects treated of. 
To their CoRRESPONDENTS they feel that they have many Thanks to tender; the Work it- 
{elf obvioufly evinces the Value of the Obligations conferred. They have alfo, at the fame 
Time, to apologize for the Omiftion of feveral much-efteemed Favours, which are poftponed 
ynavoidably for Want of Room. It is earnefily requefted, that Communications may be 
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