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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
HE feafonable rains which have fallen during thie courfe of the prefent monthy have very 
tiuch improved the growth of the winter and {pring corn; the Wheat crops univerfally 
Yoo well and improve much. . ; 
. Peas arid Beans are in thé moft flourithing ftate, and bloffom well; the Grafs feeds fowa 
this foring, have takem good toot, and are very ptomifing. 
Phe Clovers, which are now-mowing, or ready for the -fcythe, will prove an abundant 
crop; the fwath being long and heavy. The meadows in warm fituations, will be, although 
riot fo early, equally produ tive. 5 
- Winter Tres have yielded an abundance of excellent keep for Sheep and Borfes, The 
- ‘judicious practice of penning Sheep on Tares, and feeding Cart Horfes in yards, hag now 
become nearly general in the midland counties, and is attended with the moft beneficial 
effets in enriching lands and raifmg manure. : 28, G3 Sie 
Fruit-trees in expofed fituations have been much injured by the long contingance of north 
eafterly winds; and in fuch afpedts blights have been very prevalent. 
The Potatoe crops begin to grow, and recover from the check given them by the late 
cold weather. id 
Gréat part of the Turnip fallows has been fown iv the beft condition; and we notice 2 
large proportion of the Swedith kind, for late winter keep. ~ 
- Phe prefent growing feafon has been fayourable to the bufinefs of the Dairy, and has 
jacreafed the demand for Milking Cows and fmall Store Pigs, which ftill maintain good 
prices ; the larger fort of fwineare dull of fale. ; 
* Lean Stock, trom the recent improvement of the paftures, is much in requeft at the late 
fairs, and obtains good prices. Feeding Stock do well. . 
tore Sheep 2re in“abundance, and much cheaper. TOY ee 
Wool in the fleece has a brifk fates and obtains prices fomewhat higher than laft year. 
‘Phe price of Wheat has gradually declined in the London market ; at.the! beginning of 
the month Englith Wheat was from 64s. to 94s: per quarter, and at the elofe thé higheft 
price was 88s, Oats have varied from 298. td 36s. Beans have beem fupplied int fmall quari+ 
tities, and have been bought freely at a (mall advance; they are at prefentat 48s: Barley 
and Malt have experienced a dull fale during this month 5 and the prices have declined full 
three ihillings PF quarter ; Barley varying from 40s, te 37s. per quarter. Fine Flour, 80s. 
v%s. 75s. per fack. 
Lee Sinithfield Market, Beef fells fromm gs. to 6s. 2d. per ftone ; Mutton gay to gs. 8d. 5 
Veal 5s. to 6s. 8d. Pork 4s. 4d. toss. 8d. ; and Lamb 6s. to 68. 6d. 
The prices of Hay and Straw are on the decline. Hay fetches im St. James’s Markets 
varied from 31. 3s. to 21. rss. In Smithfield, from 3]. ros. to 3]. 3 and: in Whitechapel, 
from 3). 16s. 1931. 148. Clover, from 41. to gle 5s, Straw; 11. 16s.—-2l—~2i. To 
METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.. © Ye 
OL &rvasions on the State of the Weather, from the 24th gf May, ta rhe 24th, tunes 
‘ inclufivey 1805, two Miles N. YW, of St. Paul's, ass 
Barometers Thermometer 
Higheft 75°. = Juneg. ~ Wind S. 
Highs 30-40- May 30, Junezs Wind N.E. Ne eee 
owelt 26 .  . Wind S.W. ° so hese PRE ed 
Loweft 29-445 June 15 in Loweft 40°. ee Wind W. 
After a heavy rain 
zt The greateft_ heat of 
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Greateft eet fa Be ue mis ci Greateft the gd inftant, was: 72% — 
Variation in ae P h } 20.44 to 29-95, the variation in >14° J and on the 4th the there 
24 hours. bd ia gsiea fill remain. | 24 house 4}, mometer was no higher 
. ing S.W. than. 58°. 
The quantity of rain fallen this month is almoft equal to 3% inthes in dept. 
The variations in the atmofphere, as well with regard to its denfity as to its temperature, 
have not been confiderable. The average height of the barometer is equal to 30,047, which _ 
is yreater. than we have noticed it for any given month for feveral years pat. The meaw 
height of the thermometer is much lefs than it has been for fome years for the fame month, 
it being for June 1802, nearly 60°. for the fame month 1803, almoft 62°, andin June 13045 
it was full 63°; but for the month now finithed it is not quite 56%. The coldnefs of the 
feafon has been generally remarked and complained of. The wind having been the greater 
part of the month N. and N.E. has been feverely felt by the aged and invalids. 
“The rain which has fallen fince the tenth, though not fo much as might have been tma~ 
gined, has produced the mott beneficial confequences ; on the 14th and 15th it rained, without 
once ceafing for a moment, for 2% hours. This rain extended’ to many parts of the country, 
as well as to the neighbourhood of the metropolis, but in fome of the inland counties, we 
have heard that not a drop of rain fellon that day. This was the cafe we know in fome party 
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