Boo. Agricultural Report.—-Netes to Cor f efponidents sr [Oe 
hi is. animal gol es were prepared for the in-_ City, will pay the fine attention to its. care 
{pe€tion ofjthe public. Thisexcellent collec=- and prefervation, asthe” ingenieus founder dic 
tion has been the work of many years, and, it , dufing his life. Mr. Weir was a focial com= 
3s to be. hoved, that thofe public bedics, to panon; anda fincere jriénd. He is much re= 
whom, we under‘tand, along with hisfamily, . gretted by a very. numerous: SS is 
Mr. Weir has Jes it this ee orhament of the ance. 

- . AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR OCTOBER, 1797: 
THE almott unexampied prevalence of wet and cold weather has @il operated eee unfavour~ 
ably for’ the” different purpo.es of the prattical farmer. Tt‘ has ' proved extremely. detrimental to 
the getting im. of the cobcluding haryet, efpecially “in the “more. northern counties, and ye-- 
rarded in a confiderable degree the fow!ng of wheat. . Indeed, except on- dry, g) gravelly, and *fome 
foamy, foilsy little is, we believe, yet fown. ‘This being the cafe’ im the northern, we. are” fearful 
that-in the more .fouthur, parts of the Kingdom, it muft be fttil worfe.” Hence, unlefs a dry 
feafon fhould almost De media-ely take plece,. the ‘progpect of the fucceeding crop of wheat mui” a 
be gloomy: Confider rare. * the- uncommon wetnefs of the featon ; the harveft has: however Been 
fecured,: with much ‘teéfs § damage than might have been expedled.” 
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iW fame pas of Scotland, “and in the county “of Northumberland, the ‘wheat of ‘the se pptkca a 
crop has beeh found to be. mach coatfer, and lefs in quantity, thai in thot of. former: years t-bit 
the barley,..and -oat crops, -have proved better :than. that of chew heat. 
though-in. common,” eood crops, im fome inftances have. not proved io favourabie ‘as might. have 
been fuppofed en thei promafing appe.tance. 
the dechine;- bethi in the Londen’ and provincial markets. This may, 
be attributed to the great importacions from the grain countries of. the Baltic —At Mark: le 
on Monday; wheatedvanced’a fhilling per quarter, ‘The average BE eas is tetra tes 
yeturA af. the 2uft, was,for wheat, §9s. 1d. ; ; for bailey, 32S. 10d: 
TH ty ae 
Fat, cattle, fheep, and’ hogs, are full vigb, and, caniequtctly pil variation ja the price of 
TEt 
butchet’s meat, caynpt--be. very great. The demands for lean cattle-are“alfo increafing ;, bat 
fheep for, winteringy ana horfes, feem to be fomewhat lower in value —=Beef fold’ on Mantay* 
‘ 
jaft in Sthithfeld, from °35.. to 4s. 2d.; and Mitton, from 38 4d. to 4s, per ftone of Sib. 
fiking the offat, o5' 4 
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The. hép-mai vket’ “1S Very aiel pe sels but very - du!l for inf ferior "hops. eras. fell at 
Canterbury, fronr-gos; to: 1res.— Choice, 13:55. Bags, "70s. to gcs.=--Fine, “102s.---The hop 
air-at’W eyhill, was.well- attended, but from the: untayousablé weather which: accompanied. the 
picking time). few t damples of fine Rass were exhibited: thefe, -howev el, were lreadily fold. --The . 
The price of grain, in. general, sy however, <r 
-probably, in fome-degree, 
Lurnips and. potatoes, i 
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middling < and inferior {orté, were ae difpofed ‘ef, forming a total quantity of not lefs. ihanigece = : 
pockets. ‘The prices:were from 5). to og anda few fine forpples Brosacest rol... ee 
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TO C708 RE SPO, ND BN, te 
The continuati jon of Wir. HousMan’s. Tour’ ts deferred this month OF ace e aecefing cone 
nfion, of anorper V valuable. communications of ¢ a fimilay nature. = : 
“Fis PERT: -FOLi0, JVo.. 35 alfo gives way. Lo thé memoir of Mr. Wright, 
ATTICUS, of Carlifle, as requefied to tranfmit tous another.copy of the tavo ia aveiohaee Siihe 
reply to Mr. Wak-pfield, on Hume. In the commnunisation they have been rendered ille gible by the wafer. 
The baffeg ge We Wi if him. to repeat commences with + © She certain! »” and ends with © _ nothing 
£7 reater.? 
fe 
The paper of r NE qas received, but the fubje of it not Lanta Suicient ly important for an ene 
graved rope eenteti On. 
bre are not [ug Hiciené ily fatisfied réfpedling the or iginality of the “ahi miiitcaRe of B.S. “froin in! Leith. 
We are not ablets reply | to phe; query of 1. As geitidbont a sfoasch which it is as much inhis power Le 
make ASin Ours.” 
Several leaxced cox. refjondene' 55 07 difputed hoints in piabays and in b: ‘Bical criticifin, are informed 
_ that we wifh as Wiuch as Popible te fer event ory work from beecming a theological repofitory. 
_ Awain and again we repeat - our grateful athriswledements' to all’ our “corre{hondents, and ph 
Hem, that no motive but that of defiring to ms atify all our r readers can Poff bly induce us, at any time, 
io rejest or delaystheir Compmuy i atiouse » + ee 
Our American Friends are requefied ack to-apjily to-his own Bookfeller, for the future “fubjely of this 
Magazine. Our Irifh readers will obferves thet Mr. GILBERT, of Dublin, has undertaken to delyver 
the Magazine with regularity. Communications from literary char ers refiding in America on 
Frcland, « aul always be acceptable. 
