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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
(THE ftate’of the feafon during the whole of this month has been favourable for carrying 
on fuch operations of hufbandry as are neceflary to be. performed at this period of the 
year. Much of the leys have of cuurfe been broken upy and many hundred ac:es of Beans 
and Peafe have been put into the ground, arid the lands in general are in a ftate of great for~ 
wardnefs for oats and barley. jae 
The Barley tiiths on ftrong foils have been much mellowed by the late frofts, and pramife 
to make good work at feed-time. The young Wheats, in general, look well and promifing. 
The winter Tares mend very faft, and the grafs lands improve much in their appearance. 
Feeding Sheep do well; and the Turnips have not fuffered fo much from the late fevere 
weather, as might have been expected. % 
The prices of Grain in the country markets are much ‘on the decline; particularly 
Wheat and Barley. The prefent average of all England is, Wheat, gis: 7d.; Rye, 57s. 84.5 
Barley, 4%s.; Oats, 27s. The prices at Mark-lane, on February 25, were, Wheat, 1048. 
to 108s.; Rye, sos. to 58s.; Barley, g2s. to 48s.; and in plenty; Oats 26s. to 33s. 6d; 
and dull of fale. The fpecies of Oat, known by the name of the Potatoe Oat, has yielded, 
every where, an abundant crop. - | 
Store Cattle and lean Sheep are advancing much ina prices ; and Milking Cows very dear. 
In Smithfield Market, Beef fetches from 4s. to 5s. 4d.; Mutton, gs.to§s. 6d. 3 Veal; ro 
to 6s. 6d. 3 Pork, 4s. to 5s. per ftone. 
Store Hogs are low, and not very faleable, there being a great ftock on hand 5 good 
draught and faddle Horfes ftill obtain good prices. 
In Whitechapel Market, Hay fetches from 31, 16s. 6d. to4l. 16s. 3 Clover, from 41. 4s. 
to 5]. ros.; Straw, from 21. 6s. to 21. rés. " 
The Hop Duty of 1804, amounts to 386, 1241. rgs. 522. equal to177,6471. 9s. od. Old Dut 
or what ufed to be called 177,617 bags. The Produce of the preceding year was 199,206 
Bags, making together, the two largeft crops fucceeding é€ach other, ever known. 
The prices of yearlings are in bags, from 6%s. to 74s. and of new, “$48. Co F00S. 
and prefent an objet of fair fpeculation, as it will be remembered they were at 16]. 16s. to 
gol. in 1802. 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
OLfervations on the State. of the Weather, fram the agth of Fanuary, 1805, to the 24th of 
February, 1805, inclufive, rwo Miles N. W. of St. Paul's. . 
Barometer. Thermometers 
Higheft 30-20. Feb. 13. Wind N. Higheft 50°. Feb. 22. Wind W. 
Loweft 28.60, Feb. 4. Wind S. Loweft 17°. Feb. 2. Wind N,£, 
The. mercury 
fuddenly rofe be- Tn the morning of the 
th, the thermo 
Greateft 2 o¢-1c0ths tween the noon of Greateft ? 2 is s hi iy ‘Pps 
Variation in ¢ ¢). inch. \ the sth and 6th variation in \ zg? < WaS aS DIgM- aS 40%, af. 
24 hours, 5 " " Afrom 28.8. to | 24 hours. 5 the fame hour on the 
oie ns 6th it was no higher. 
ae than 27° 
The quantity of rain fallen during this month is equal to 1.557 inches in depth, 
The average height of the thermometer, 35° 5”, has been five degrees lefs this month 
than it was in February of laft year. Severai mornings have been exceedingly cold; befides 
the inftance referred to above, we have feen the mercury once at 18°, once at 21%, once at 
22°, twice at 24%, and fix timesat 28°. The changes alfo, from heat to cold, and from. 
cold to heat again, have been remarkable, and muft have been feverely felt by invalids. 
The weight of the air has likewife varied very much. The atmofphere has, in general, 
been clear, but Monday, the 28th of January, was one of the darkeft and blackett days, 
without much fog, that we ever remember to havefeen. Ontwelve days the fun has fhene, 
for feveral hours, with great {plendour ; about as many may be mentioned as having been 
marked with rain or fnew 3 a fevere fhower of large hail fell about twoo’clock, which 
was not fucceeded with any froft. The wind has been very variable. __ 
From our correfpondent in Yorkfhire we find the weather has been lefs fevere in the 
north than it has teen in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and a gentleman in tra- 2 
velling from Richmond, in Yorkhhire, to London, in the beginning of February, expe- ; 
rienced feveral changes in the climate, and in the appearance of the country ; for fome 
miles the ground was covered with fnow, then for as many or more there was no appear- 
ance of froft cr fnow. This change in the fcene he noticed five or fix times in the courfe of 
his journey, and from his feelings he decided that the weather was more fevere in Londoa 
than at the diftance of zco miles from this city. 
