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sa Monthly Agriculture Report. [ November, 
‘Many “of the principal trading towns in different parts of the kiss gdom, and particularly 
the ports to Which Weft India produce is chiefly configned, are experiencing the natural 
re-aétions which always occur during a period of extenfive commerce: high profits never 
fail to bring round a plentiful fupply “of the ar ticle on which they arife, and the confumer 
gets the commodity, for atime, as much below its real value as formerly he had paid 
above it, which in a feries of years equalizes in fome degree the advantage between the con- 
fumer and the merchant. -At Gr ascow at prefent,, fhe fale af alma every article of fo- 
reign produce is at aftand 3 the markets is glutted ; andthe manufa@turer having before him 
fo plentiful a ftock, purchales no. further than for the immediate fupply of his neceffity, 
~The probability arifing from‘thefe cirewmftances, of ‘an alteration taking place in the price 
1» Of cotton wool, and that:the“fall-may-be very great} which muft have a confiderable efteét 
on the price of ‘manufadturers, has produced-a fapeaeee with refpe& to every article of 
cotton goods, which is much felt both by the manufacturer and merchant, and from which 
general creditis. already much atteCed. 
With refpe& te the trade of Brrmrn GHAM, the feats we expreffed in our laf rtpelae 
the fituation-of -Francfort have been realized; for juft about the time the fair fhould have 
been held, the:French made a vifit to it, and levied a contribution of 3c0,c00 florins, a 
trifling fum compared with the a@ual wealth of the inhabitants, but the circumftance oc- 
curing juft at this time caufed its effeéts to be felt in diftant countries 3 for feveral of the 
merchants -who had affembled at Franckfort fled from it again, and confidence received a 
violent fhock. Had, not this event occurred, the fair would probably have been a good one 5 
as itis, the orders from thence for Birmingham manufa€tures are. net very large. ‘The 
remittances we “believe cannot be complained of, but on account. of the fhock felt im 
London from the failure of the Hamburgh houfes, many of the bills remitted have not 
been acgepted. 

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MONTHLY: AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
N moft of the midland and fouthern diftsicts of this kingdom, the grain has been chiefly 
_ cur, bat, on account of the continued wetnefs of the featen, a good deal’ is fill in the 
. fields in no very promifing fituation, though from the coldnefs of the air, it has net fprouted 
i or grown fo much as in many oe ‘The Wheat, are forthe mof part fecure in the 
barn or the ftack ; andon the whole are probably a better crop than there was reafon to expe. 
In the northern anaes however, much grain is fill to be cut; and in fome of the more 
“northern ert of Scotland, the harvet is fearcely yet commenced. And in thete, as well 
2s fome of the lower counties, our eer ter fays, the crops are expeéled to he Very’ 
- unprodu€tive for want of fun to bring them*to maturity ; that indeed, ‘from the want 
id - of funthine and heat, the fields never aflumed their ufual harveft calor’ ‘and even> when 
t; the ftraw had totally loft its former moifture, the grain continued green and foft, with- 
out that. plpapeets of folidity which always attend the ear when fuificiently ripened 5 and 
that on the coaft lands, Oats aad Barley are fuperior crops to Wheat, which is greatly below , 
‘the quality and quantity, of any crop fince 1782. Wheat averaged, by the return of the 5th ~ 
of Oober 79s. Id. and on the icth 8€s. 3d. 
The greatest part of the Oat-crop is yet to cut, and from the ftate of the- weather, and 
the tees of greens there is caufe to fear that much of this grain will not be duly ripened. 
What has been “mealed has’ ‘yielded ‘lefs than lat year; but this grain upon: the whole is fu- 
perior to the others, and promifes, upon g geod land, to be of greater value to the farmer than 
Wheat. ‘ 
. The Barley isin many places much injured from being grown, by the continuance of.wet 
weather. The av erage of alan and Wales was 53s. §¢. on the roth. 
The Peafe in many places will hardly return the feed; but Beans are now thought to ae 
fully better than, was originally expected. 
| | Harveft work has been a moft difagreeable and tedious operation to the farmer, and perhaps 
| the like has not been experienced in this country fora eer pat. 
| + The wetnefs.of the weather has been equally unfavourab ble for preparing the fummer fal= 
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jows,: and putting in the Wheat-crep, little of which is yet fown, evenon thefe, and very 
little indeed on the Bean and Pea ftu Biles or Clover root. Theie few laft fine i have, 
“however, rendered the plough and harrow bufy on fech Lands. 
Turnips: Further reports confirm the account we have already given of this crop. For un- 
leis upon vich, dry. foils, they cannot he confidered as equal to half a crop. 
Potarces. Thefe donot turn out very well on being dug up, “as in many places they are 
rouch eaten by the grub 5 and in others, efpecially wet ones, they-are rotten from water 
ftagnating fo ig apon them. in many inftances, Bes cannot be kept for winter ftore. 
« €attle.. The failure in the Tarni ip-crops, the dearnefs-and ‘fearcity of hay, and the want 
of other forts of fodder, muit oF necellity fe nd a number or half fed heafts to: market at pre= 
\. ‘feat; which though it may lower the price of meat now, mvit tend to produce a fcarcity im 
the Spring moy.ths. Fat ftock, however, keeps its price ; but bean béaits are confiderably 
lower than they have been, fome forts are indeed cheaper than they have been for feveral 
years pat. ee RR; : 
Sheep Fat hheep ftill fetch good ee 
