3 Depih of Rain at No 
fioor in the field, covered with a large 
cloth. ‘The produce j is from 3 to 6 quar- 
ters per acre. Ini ite x, the farmers com- 
monly job the reaping, threfhing, drefiing, 
making the floor, and facking the feed, 
at 6d. per bufhel ; at which rate, the men 
are well paid, the crop being good. T’o 
Makea good fample, the eck ought to 
be large, black, and iree from red or 
duiky ones. Should crop be long be- 
the 
fore ff. ale, it wfrequire a very dry place, 
or the fample will lofe its colour, end in. 
courie much of its price. 
FE have thus, Sir, anfwered your cor- 
gefpondent’s qu ueries, {ofmewhat at large; 
and thould be happy at any Future occa- 
-fimilar fmail fervices to a 
Miucellany, the mora! and ufeful tenden- 
cies of which coincide entirely with the 
fentiments of 
Your obedient, humble fervant, 
A PRACTICAL FARMER. 
Fan. 20, 1798. 
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rwich in eight Years. [Jan. 
ble you with a copy from the yeat 179 
to 1798 inclulive.— The Rain, as it falls, 
pafles through a funnel a foot fguare at 
the top, into a tin receiver in the thape 
of 2 bottle, which appears not to admit 
of much evaporation in the hotteft feafon ; 
one pint corref{ponds very near to a quar- 
ter of an inch deep from the furface ; con- 
ey 160 pints in 1796 anfver to 
40. inches in the whole of that year, 
-vide any of the mont ths; or the whole 
year, by 4, and it exhibits the depth of 
the rain, and the vait difference of wet 
and dry in the whole of each year. 
Tt is worthy of your readers attention, 
that in the months of September, Ogtober 
and November 1794, there fell 982 pints, 
very little lefs-than in the whole of the 
year 1791 and 1793- — Thefe heavy. 
rains cauied an high water, which inun- 
dated the lower part of this city; in many 
of the houfes there were between 2 and 3 
feet water; and boats rowed in -feveral 
principal free ts, to give them fupplies 
ife 
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| Faihe Editor of the Monthly Magazin rile their upper windows.—A great fhow 
SIR, the January fo ollowing, caufed a itil higher 
yr WAVING. fever ral years been in the water, and m muit, but for the liberality of 
x li regular practice of keeping a re-. the inhabitants, have been infupportable 
gifter of “the quantity Of ain elma ‘by the poor and their diftrefied families. 
lle nat the end of every month, FE trou- Nori Ch, 14 Fan. 1799- Fiz 
1791/92). 93). O41) 05) eee 
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189% | 5 8 74 sy 16 IZ 72 
4 | rofl rr | 9 | xs | 5] 63 20. 
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7 | 143,10] 4} 004) Saleen 
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4z 11 tal 2 33] 14 | 132) 103 
yi) Bet ait a 124 16 213) 6 
as 9 | Shore 21% 
12) 31.4] Sa 22 P14 | arg 
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6/15 | 15 | 3t2} 2 Sa} 34 | 28 
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OAober!) +9 - eyo ee Gas of 6 | a6) bey | 1g | 143] 26 
* | + I 
November - - - - - sip iy | Ge ae | 315) 22 | 28 |: 2Ogr fT 
December - - - - =~] 103] 17 | 10 | to-| 194) 184] 21 |.19 
Ale Meafure—Total Pints in | | | 
| 103] 124] ro2lrg8 | rao] 160) 185] 166 
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