C8685 Js fjune 1; 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
"THE unufual coldnefs of the weather, and the want of rain, together with the flight frofte 
that have occafionally occurred in the nights during the greateft part of the prefent 
menth, have confiderably checked the growth of the grain crops, and been highly injurious 
_tothofe of the grafs kind. In many good gfals diftri€ts, in the fouthern parts of the king 
dom, it appears even at this advanced period of the feafon extremely backward, thin on the 
ground, and hort; and in thofe of the north thiere is yet but .ittle appearance of a crop. 
In the midland counties, there having been a continue: courfe of dry harfh weather, 
with frofty nights, till about the 2oth, the crops have fuffered accordingly. The Wheats 
are in general thin, efpecially on the north fides of the lands, and where the worm has 
taken it. Barley has fuffered much, as well ds Oats. Peafé in mamy places are nearly cut 
eff Beans alone {cem not to have {uftainea a:y injury, but in general look very well, 
‘The quentity of Hay will be very ftort, efpecially on the forward lands ; amd the Clovers 
are fo backward that it will be very hazardous tu attempt acrop of feed after they are 
mown for Hay —On the 20th, there fell in this diftriG fome rain, and we hoped for fome 
warm dripping weather ; but the fame ungenial weather continued -till the 25th, when 
there was a fine rain, accom >aaied ita a varmer ac nofphere. 
Sheep ard Cattle are lower in price. Hays are much thé fame as laf month. 
Hories, both for draught and the faddle, particularly fuch as will fuit the army, are con- 
‘ fiderably advanced, | ; . 
The price of Grain is now on the advance. The average prices are—-Wheat 57s. 3d. 5 
Rye 358. 9d. 3 Barley 24s. 1d. 3 Oats 19s. rod.; Bears 318. tid. 3 Peafe 34s. 2d. 
in Smith4eld Market Beef yields 5s. to 6s. ; Mutton gs 4¢ to 6s. 44.5 Veal §s. to 7s- 
Pork 4s. 84. to 6s.—-Newgate and Leadenhall Market, Beef qs to ¢s. ; Mutton 4s, 8d. to’ 
zs. 8d.; Veal qs. to 6s. 4d.; Pork 4s. 8d. to 6s. 
Hay likewife continues to advance in price. Average price in St. James’s Market=-4l. ros 
to Zl.j Straw 1]. 37s. to2!. Whitechapel Market—-Hay ql. to 61, 105. 3 Clover 61. 6a, 
te zl. 7s.3 Straw 3]. 12s. to 21. 
Feps have been in fome degree injured from the great want of rainy 
Te 5 
METEOROLOGICAI, REPORT. | 
avpations en the State of the Weather, from the 24th of Apvil, te Me 24th of 
oe May, inglupuely, 1803, two mites N. W. of St. auie : ) 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Hisheft 30.10. May 16, Wind N. Higheft 70°. May 8, Wind N.E. 
Loweft 29.22, May 22, Wind S.W. Loweft 32°. April 26, Wind N.W. 
On the evening of At fun-rife on the 261% 
_the gth ini, the Create ult. the mercury was as 
mercury ftodd as gettin ; a 
Greateft r ee CO sf -2 and | Vatiation in 10%, ¢ lowas the freezing point; 
Yariation in | Mecaniens. We h Rage 24 hours. the next morning at the 
24 hours. 5 of an inch 2on. the next even. fame hour it was as high 
O68 was at as 42° 
The quantity of rain fallen during the prefent month is equal to 0.865 inches in height. 
During a confiderable part of the pak month the weather has been remarkably cold; the 
mornings have been fufficiently frofty to retard in a confiderable degree the progrefs of vee 
getatien, but not fo fevere in any particular inftance as was witneffed in the cou#fe of the 
fame period aft year. Frencli Beans and other tender vegetables, though fufferers by the 
feverity of the weafher are not entirely cut off, as was the cafe on the 18th of May, 1802 
The warmef days were the $ch and gth inft, and though the wind was north-eaft as nearly 
as poflible, yet on the 8th, the thermemeter was at 70° 3 and on the gth at 68°, full 9% 
higher than it was on the famse day in an inland town, 170 miles north-eaft of the me- 
tropolis. 
The average height of the thermometer is rather lefs than it was laft month. 
The barometer has been very fteady, the variations have been feldom two-tenths in the 
courfeof twenty-four hours; its mean height is 29.67. The wind has been principally 
in N.N.E. Of twenty-four days withoutrain, fixteen have been. very brilliant. 
N.B. Our readers wil! percetve that the Magazine is enlarged at avery cau- 
siderable expence this month, in order to introduce a fuller and more satisfac- 
tory transcript of the lateMCorreseonpeNece between the Bririsy ‘end 
Frenes GovexnMments than appeared in any of the Newspapers. 
