612 Monthly Agricultural Report. {July 3; 
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The total quantity of wheat and other kinds of gram imported into England from the 28th of 
‘December lait, to the 17th of June has’been as follows ; Wheat, 419,804qrs. Wheat-flour, 51,448 
ewt. Rye, 55,410 qrs. Rye-meal, 2,157 cwt. Barley, 10,878 qrs, Oats, 108,966 qrs. Gat- 
meal, 1,657 cwt. Peafe, 5,190 qrs. Beans, 5,444 qrs. Notwithftanding the arrival of thefe 
confiderable quantities and the knowledge that much more is on its paflage, -almoft every kind 
of grain continues to advance, and till areduétion takes place it may be ufeful to.endeavour to in- 
troduce more generally the coatumption of rice, which has lately fatlen five or fix fhillings per 
ewt. the importation thereof having been very confiderable; good Carolina rice is at prefent 
from 27s. to 31s. and Eaft India, from 26s- to 2gs- per cwt. . 
Raw fugars are higher firtee our Jaft, being at prefent at the following prices, St. Kitts, 5986 
to Sos. Montferrat, 58s. to 78s. St. Vincents znd Nevis, 58s. to 77s. Jamaica, 55s. to 76s. 
Grenada, 56s. tp 75s. Dominica and Antigua, 56s. to 76s. Barbadoes, 56s. to 75s. Martinico, 
g6s. to 74s. and St. Domingo, 55s. to 74s. Grenadaclay’d, from 64s. to 1028s. Barbadoes 
¢lay’d, 66s. to 1048. Martinico clay’d, 63s. to 102s. and St. Domingo clay’d, 63s. to Ioos. 
Lumps are from 97s. to 112s. fingle loaves ro$s. to 118s. and powder loaves, 11¢s. to 126, 
Coffee has rifen three or four fhillings per Cwt. Fine cofice is from 154s to 163s. good, from 
142s. to 5538. and middling from 130s- to 141s. 
' Cotton-iwool continues to advance alittle, although the quantity imported has been confiderable. 
Cayenne is from gs. to 3s. 2d. Berbice, Surinam and Pernambuco, from 2s. tod. to 3s. De- 
merary 2s. 6d. to 2s, gd. St. Domingo, 2s. rd. to 2s. 6d. Grenada and Carriaco, 2s. 5d. to 
2s. 8de Barbadoes, 28+ 5d. to 2s. 7d. Martinico, 2s. 3d. ta 2s. 7d. South Carolina and Geor= 
gia, 1s. 6d. to 2s. Jod. and Surat, is. 2d. to Es- 4d. 
The Bank of Exgland have given notice that they intend to publifh in the month of December 
next, a lift of proprietors of unpaid dividends on bank ftock, and all the government fends tranfs 
ferable at the Bank of England to the sth of July, 1797- All perfonsentitled to fuch dividends, 
avho are not willing that their names fhould be publithed, fhould therefore receive the fame ony, 
or before the 1{t of OGtober next, as all dividends remaining on the books after that day muftne= 
ceflarily be.included in the lift. . 
A SE SL TE I TIE TS IIE TE 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
With the exception of a week or ten days in the beginning of the month, the weather has 
been favourable for bringing forward the different crops; in moft of the fouthern diltricts of 
the kingdom the fpring corns look healthy and promife to be good crops, but in a few inftanceé 
the wheats are thin, and notof fo good an appearance. In Cumberland the commencement: 
of the month wagmarked with fo great a feverity, as to threaten the deftruction of every fruit of 
the field; but the injury fuftained from the keen frofts and eafterly winds, has been in fome mea= 
dure repaired by the more genial rains and breezes which have fince fugceeded, though the long 
continuance of wet and cold has confiderably hurt the greateft part of the county. The wheat crop 
in general has a fickly appearance, and is very thin on the ground:—Barley, on fed off turnip 
land, looks well, and at prefent promifes a good crop, wherever the feed has been early fown = 
-=(Oats, except on dry free foils, have failed much, and on many lands have entirely difappeareds 
a circumftance which, in this county, can only be attributed to one caufe, that of the earth hav- 
ing been fo completely faturated with wet as to allow no grain to vegetate upon it; a cafe too 
general on lands of a firm clay bottom, or fubje&t to any kind of running fprings. The growth - 
of the grain on fome rich loamy foils has alfo fuffered greatly from the depredations of the white 
fnail, orffome other deftruétive infects; in which cafes, the diligent farmer fhould immediately have. 
recourfe either to night-rolling, or fprinkling quick-lime on the land fo infefted during the night- 
time; the latter practice has been found more efficacious, by either deftroying them at once, 
or cutting off their retreat, and two Cumberland bufhels of good lime, are quite fufficient for an 
acre. The hay feafon has been fo far very good, and much grafs in the fouthern parts ef the 
ifland has been already cut and made into hay, the crops being for the moft part good, but not fo 
full as there was :eafon fome time ago to fuppofe they would be. “The paftures are in general 
good, but the keep of lean ftock and Milch Cows has been in many places unufually fearce, pro- 
bably from.the circumftances of pafture land being converted to hay in many inftances from the 
high prices it fetched laft year. 
“Potatoes have in different places been confiderably injured by an infect of the grub kind, which. 
has eaten off the ftems even when of confiderable fize, and thereby completely ftopped the vegeta- 
tionof the root. Where this has not been the cafe, they look extremely well, and in many in- 
ftances are certainly unulually forward. Larger quantities than in ¢ommon years have unquel- 
tionably been planted, a eee : 
Peas and Beans where the feed was good, are in general abundant crops and pretty full in the 
pod, butin fome cafes they have failed on account of the feed having been bad. 
Artificial or fown graffes are we believe almoit every where very tull crops. 
The hop plantations are in general in a thriving condition, full of bine and forward in growth’; 
but all infected with the fly, and in the ftrong grounds, the hice are numerous. 
But although the crops of the prefent year may on the whole be fafely pronounced to be fa- 
yourable ; the prices of all forts of grain {till keep up. “Throughout England and Wales, wheat 
averages 120s. sd. Rye, 83s. Barley, 63s. tad. Oats, 46s. rod. Beans, 75s. ad, and Peafe, 78s. 4d. 
Nor has the abundance of grafs yet had much influence in reducing the prices of butcher’s 
teat. In Carlifle market, Beef fells from sd. to gd. per lb. Mutton from 4d. to Sd. and Veal 
from 33d. to 64d., In Smithfield by the ftone of Sib. Becfaverages 4s. to 5s. 4d. Mutton 4s. 8d. 
to 5s. Od. Veal 4s. to 6s, and Pork 4s. 8d. to 5s. 6d. 
Lean ftock is fomewhat lower in fome of the provincial markets. 

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