[ 200 ] [Sept. 1, 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
‘FROM the uncommon finenefs of the weather during the whole of the laft month, and 
the greateft part of the prefent, the harveit in moft places commenced a fortnight or three 
weeks fooner than ufual, and in many of the fouthern and weitera iiftr 2s. on this account, 
much of the crops have been already fecured. In the northern parts of the ifland the har- 
veft isnot in fo advanced a ftate ; but we believe there are few diftris in which a confiier- 
able part of the grain has not been reaped. ‘s the accounts whch we hive seccived from 
various parts of the kingdom agree very much in ftating the crops tu be full and produ@tive, 
it may, we think, be concluied, that the grain crop of the pr-fent year is more than an 
average one, which, added to the circumftances of the harvei+ being a full fortnight earlier 
than ufual, and the arrivals of foreign grain, fhould have had a greater influence in re- 
ducing the price of grain, more efpecially of wheat, than it feems yet to have had, parti- 
cularly in the London market. At Mark lane, onthe 2sthof Augu’, the prices of wheat 
were from sos. torr8s. average 76s: 54.3 barley 35s. ‘o 758.3 oats 18s. to 32s. The ave- 
rage of England and Wales, by the left returns, were, wnea: o6s. 2d.. harley 54s. 3d. 5 
oats 38s. gd. At Chichefter market, on the oth, the average price of wheat was gs 6d. per 
bufhel ; and on the 14th, wheat fold in the Birmingham market at gs. per bufhel: much very 
good at ros, 6d. and the average price of the beft was 11s. 6d. Sainples of new oats were 
fhewn at 4s. and 4s. 6d. per bufhel, and they have fince fallen confiderably. In Salifbury 
market, on Tuefday the 16th, the average price of wheat was 12s. per buthel ; of barley 5s. ; 
of cats 4s, 9d. 3 and of beans 8s. 14.3; fince which wheat has fallen there to an average of 
16l. per load. At all the principal towns in Effex, on the 15ih, the average price of the 
quartern loaf was r1¢d. and the peck of flour 3s. 5d. The quartern loaf at Canterbury, and 
at Sherborne, on the 1sth, was r13d.; fine flour 7os. per fack, or 34. per Ib. At Cerne and 
many cther parts of Dorfetthire, the quarters loaf was at $d. on the fame day. 
The late hot and dry feafon has, in fome places, been unfavourable for the turnip crops 3 
but where fhowers occafionally fall, or where the land on which they were fown was reten= 
tive of moifture, they look. well. 
Potatoes have alfo in many places fuftered confiderably from drought, on which account 
they will not probabiy turn out to be fo good a crop as has been fuppofed. 
Hay, from the hotnefs of the feafon, and its being, in confequence of that, brought toges 
ther withtoo much rapidity, has, in many inftances, been either totally fpoiled, or much in- 
jured, by heatinginthe ftack. The prices in St. James’s Market, Auguft 23d, were from 
63s. to 71,; average sl. 1s. 6d. At Whitechapel much higher. 
Straw. The prices of this article at St. James’s were from 48s. to 60s.3 average 54s. $ 
and at Whitechapel the average was only 33s. 
Hopsare rather recovered by the late wet weather. Kentifh now yield from 16 guineas to 
181. in bags; Suffex and Effex fomewhat lefs ; Farnham’s, in pockets, from 17]. to 20l. 
Cattle. From the great fcarcity ef grafs, on account of the drynefs of the feafon, fat 
ftock ftill keeps up confiderably in the prices, though not fo much as it has done. Beef at 
Smithfield yields from 3s. 4d. to 4s. 10d. per ftone. Lean ftock is however ftill getting down, 
At Dorchefter fair, on the 12th, there was a great fhew of neat cattle, which were fcarcely 
faleable at reduced prices; and at Shrewfbury fat cattle fold at 52d per 1b. to fink the offal. 
Lean cattle of all kinds fearcely faleable. At Worcefter fair on the 15th there was a fine 
thew of fat cattle, great numbers of which remained unfold, and the prices fell much; but 
at Lanfdown fair there was much fat cattle,which fold dear. The lean cattle there was very 
dull of fale, and the greateit part were driven away unfold. 
Sheep. Fat fheep in general bring good prices, but ftore fheep are lower than they have 
been. At Smithfield, on the 25th, the mutton yielded from 4s. to 5s. 2d. per ftore, to fink 
the offal, and lamb from 4s. to 5s. 3d. At Britford fair, near Salifbury, on the 12th, lambs 
fold full 5s. per head under laft year’s prices. At Alresford lamb fair there were between 
five and 600 ewes, and from 1500 to 2000 lambs, and a good fhew of South Down rams. 
~The fale was very dull 5 beft lambs from 16s. to 19s.; fome as low as 10s. Rams from five 
guineas to eight guineas and a half; ewes low. 
Wool. At Shrewfbury fair on the rath fleece-wool fold from 20s. to 30s. per ftone of 15lb. 
lamb’s wool from 12d. to r§d« per 1b, ; and the annual wool fair at Afhford was attended by 
a great number of growers, and feveral dealers, but no bufinefs was done, 131. per pack being 
afked, which was declined on the part of the dealers, who offered 121. for fleece-wool, 81. 
for lamb wool, and 5]. for locks. 
Hogs in many parts of the country are getting lower. In Smithfield market pork yields 
from 53s. to 6s. per ftone. 
Horjes. Good horfes in general are very dear. 
Checfe. At Lanfdown fair, on the 12th, the quantity of new cheefe was but f{mall, and 
there was no old on the Down: price from 6os. to 64s. fome few hundreds higher. At the 
late Magdalen Hill fair, new cheefe yielded from 56s. to 63s.3 inferior 4os. to 46s.; old 
7%s. to 84s. prices declining. At Chilmark fair there was alfo a large fupply of cheefe, 
ptices declining, - 
