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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT: 
HE finenefs of the feafon has euabied the farmers to put in their wheat crops with much, 
facility and in a very perfeét manner, even in the more northern parts of the ifland; and 
the late mild rains muft have had'a highly beneficial effe& in promoting their vegetation. 
The prices of grain {till keep up. By the returns made up to’ the middle of October, 
nr wheat averaged, 61s. 8d:; barley, 25s. 10d.; oats, 19s. 10d.; and beans, 34s. 3d. 
The potatoe and other root crops have been mofily teken up, in the more fouthern parts 
of the kingdom; and though in general good, ip refpect to quality, are not fo large or pros 
ductive as is often the cafe in lef dry feafons. 
The drynefs of the feafon, in the begmning of the month, afforded good opportunities 
for putting manure upon the grafs lands; and much was of courfe got out in thole diftricts 
| where it is the cuftom to apply it at this period of the year. 
The paftures in many places have been fo greatly refrethed and improved by ‘the thowers 
| that have fallen during the laft ten days, that the {tock may remain in them, without any ine 
convenience, for fome time to come, if the weather continues mild. 
Mutton, in Smithfield market, fetches from 4s. to 5s. 6d.; beef, from 3s. 4d. to 4s. 8d.3 
and pork, from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 8d. per [tone of eight pounds, inking the offal. nro te 
Hay {till keeps its price ; and fetches, at St. James’s market, an average price ip 6l.. < 
- Straw, im the fame market, averages 21. 
; : METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
‘i , Objervations om the State of the Weather, from the asth of September, to the 
24th of OGober, 1302, inclufive, twa miles N. W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer. Thermometer. 
Hizhef 30.21. Od. 14, Wind N. Highet 73° O&.2, Wind W, «- 
| Lowe 29.28. Oct. 39, Wind S. W. Loweft 28° Oét. 17, Wind N.E. 
| Between the mid in the morning of th® 
; dle of the day of 18th inft. the thermo- 
} Greate? >} 58 hun- the r2thinft. and Greateft meter ftood at 41°, an 
I Variation in eat of < the fame hour of | variation in on the next day at the 
H 24 hours. aninch. {the rgth, the mer _ hours. * fame hour it was as high 
cury rofe from as 9gPe 
i | 29.39 to 29 97. 
i The quantity of rain fallen the laft month, and which was omitted to be mentioned in 
the preceding report, was equal to only 1.038 inches in depth: im the prefent month the 
quantity is equa! to 2.162 inches in depth. % 
For feveral months we have ebferved that the changes in the denfity in the atmofphere, 
have been inconfiderable: within the la{t fortnight thefe variations have been much greater. 
Several times, m the courfe of 24 hours, the height of the mercury in the barometer, has 
jzried three, four, and even five-tenths. 
To the tw enty- -feven days without rain mentioned in the laft, may be added twelve more, 
making in the whole 59 days in fucceficn without rain, with the exception only of 2 a fingle 
fierm. Althodch the mercury began to fubfide, on the 29th ult. when it ftced at 30. 16, 
and fell very gradually f for the next four days to 29,55, yet there was no ram in this neigh- 
bourheod ; bat it rove for the next 36 hours, owing, probably, to a britk wind; and on aan 
Sth iaftatit a little rain fell; on the 12th there was none; and fince the 18th we have had 
feveral very grateful thowers, that will fill the hearts of the hufbandmen with joy and 
giadnefs. a 
The temperature of the atmofphere, has, likewife, been very changeable. The moft ma- 
terial variation is noted above; but it muft not be oa that at half pait feven im the 
morning of the 17th inftant, the thermometer ftood at 28, or four degrees below the freezmg 
point ; this degree of cold was accompanied with an exceedingly white froft; the difference 
then in the ftate of the thermometer between the mornings of the 17th and 19th of the 
prefent month was 29°, 0n the former it {tood at 28°, on the ‘latter at 57° 
The number of days without rain fince the laft report have been twenty-two: the wind - 
has been in all points of the compafs; but, out of the Lee days, it has eo nineteen 
from the wefterly piace of the heavens. : 
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