1801.] Monthly Agricultural Report. 279 
The ceffation of the Sounty on corm, &c. on the firlt of O&ober, mult, no doubt, tend to keep ~ 
up its market-price, 
Confiderable fales by auction, cltiefly of Weft India and European goods have taken place im 
London, fince the 20th of September: 
1,366 chefts of. Indigo, at from 5s, 7d. to 10s. 11d. a lib. on credit for two months were 
fold on the 24th of September, by the Eaft India Company. ‘The price of Eaft India Indigo, of 
courfe, rifes in the market, 
The przmia of infurance are, in all times, a heavy burden upon'trade. In war, they are pes 
culiaily burthenfome—Yet, it is impoflible now to contemplate the tables of the rates of jnfurancey 
at the principal ports of Great Britain, without being attoniffied, not that the infurance 1s fo high, 
but that it fhould be fo moderate. ; 
The contention refpeting the Country Banks, and the competition between them and 
the Bank or Encvanp is till eagerly continued. It is clear, that for the convenience of fo 
great atrade as that of Great Britain, there ought to be as well country-banks as one great 
national one. But, nothing can be more evident, than that the legiflature ought to eftablith cer- 
tain proportions between the Bank-notes, the coin, and the whole moving property of the king- 
‘dom ; and that the proprietors of country-banks ought, as well as the Bank of England, to be 
obliged to give to the public and even to the ftate, full fecurity for their folvency. It would bea 
check againft forgeries, and alfo againft the undue iffue of country-bank-notes, if they were all 
to be regiftered and figned by fome exifting public officer in each county-town, with whom a fe- 
curity might be lodged for the amount iffued. io 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
y‘HE prefent feafon has fhewn all the commonly received prognoftics of abundance, and a 
general crop of all the fruits of the earth—througbout the fummer alternate warm fhowers and 
ary weather; a profufion of nuts acorns ,bips ,haws, floes, and beach-mafi—the fame figns are fuppofed 
‘to indicate the feverity of the approaching witter. By the laft accounts from the Contig 
nent, thecrops feem every where to be equally abundant, as if, by natural confequence,the late 
univerfal fcarcity was a€tually reverfed. The afpect feems flattering in the higheft degree 
to this country, where the firft neceflaries have too long been at a moft exorbitant rate 3 but 
a crop of wheat upon the ground, or even in the early period of threfhing, has 
often difappointed the moft experienced practical men. We fhall be able to fpeak more pofitively 
of the yield of this year’s wheat, both in point of quantity, and in the quality of the manu- 
fattured article, two or three months hence. The wheat has been generally well harvefted 
throughout South Britain; in the North, it has been, in fome degree damaged by the rains, 
and by the defeét of drying winds. There will bea confiderable quantity of {mutty wheat in the 
North, and in the counties on the fouthern coaft, in confegyence of a blight caught towards 
the end of July and the beginning of Augutt, from mitts ana fhowers, accompanied with cold 
night winds. It clearly appears now, by accounts from all quarters, that the ftock of old 
Englith wheat is fairly exhaufted, nor is the quantity of fuperfine foreign, on hand, at all 
too abundant, compared with the demand for grinding with the new Englifh; of ordinary 
foreign, unfit for the Englifh bread-manufaCtory, the quantity (as is ufual in all importa- 
tions) isimmenfe. Under the prefent happy appearances of’ univerfal plenty, peace only is 
wanted to bring the neceflaries of life to that eafy and comfortable rate to the lower and 
middle claffes, of which they ftand in fuch preffing need: we are warranted, neverthelefs, 
to expect a further confiderable reduCtion of prices. Never was there in Britain fo widely 
extended a growth of wheat and potatoes in any former year. 
Throughout Cornwall, Devon, Somerfet, Wilts, Berks, and all the fouth-weft to the 
eaftern coaft, all crops are moft abundant ; in the weft, the barley-crop particularly great. 
Same accounts from’ Wales, including hops and fruit. 
From Hereford to Gloucefter, Oxford, and throughout all the middle counties, to the 
Fens and Lincolnthire, we have the moft flattering accounts of every {pecies of produce. In 
Yorkthire, all the crops of corn and fruit, great and well got in: farther tothe north, the 
oats are, in many diftricts, difcoloured, although they are plump, and weigh well; and the 
barley is ftained and coarfe. ‘The average price of corn, &c. for England. and Wales, from 
the returns received in the week ending Sept. 19, was, for wheat, 38s. 10d. ; rye, 548. 8d. 5 
barley, 49s. 9d.3 and oats, 30s, |; 
Turnips look well in the beft counties, but they are faid not toapple well in the norths 
confidering the vaft fpread of potatoes this yeas (by fome afferted to be even fifty times 
greater than any preceding) the crop of turnips cannot be expected fo extenfive as ufual; the 
potatoes, however, will be found a noble fubititute, by thoie who have convenience to fteam 
or bake them, fhould the feafon prove rigorous. Of rape and cole, and even of tares, as 
Cattle-feed, we have heard byt little, and with to hear more. Hay is faid to be a particular 
%0od crop, and of fine quality in the north. Of artificial grafles, no material account has 
zeached us.—Hay, at St. James’s Market, on the igth of Sept. fetched from 31. to 51. 16s. 5 
ftraw, rl. ros, to 11. 16s. 6d. At Whitechapel Market; it fetched from 41. to 51. 16s. 5 
gover, from 61, 6s. to 7]. 3 ftraw, ul. 35, to al, 36s, : or 
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