ro Monthly Agricuituyal Report.  - [Feb. 1, 
Woodeocks have this year been much lefs numerous than ufual. The change of the 
wind, from eaf to fouth-weft, towards the latter end of November, drove away the re- 
mainder of the firft flight; and fince that time very fewhave been feen. Snipes are in 
gteat abundance. So long as the mild weather at the beginning of the month continued 
they were to be found on motft of the heaths in this neighbourhood. 1 was informed of 3 
gentleman who shot more than forty in one day. 
December 9..A few florets of the woodbine are fill left. 
Lamperns (petromyaox branchialis of Linnazus) are to be obferved adhering to ftones in 
the rivers. : 
_ December 18. The hard froft of laft night has compelled feveral {pecies of wild fow! to 
feek for fhelter in onr harbours and rivers. This. morning eight hoopers, or wild fwaus 
were feen; and in the courfe of the day fome flocks of wild geele. . sit 
"The Turnip-greens have been rendered completely flaccid by the froft, and are all now 
lying upon the ground, : 
The moles, which were yefterday bufily employed in throwing up their hillocks, are now 
compelled to feek for fhelter out of the reach uf the froft, as the whole furface of the earth 
js impenetrable by them. 
G December 21. A bitters was this day fhot. tie : | 
23. ¥ am not inclined to believe that the common wagtails migrate in the autumn, 
as it has generally been aflerted by ornithologifts. In the midft of the fnow, and Ben 
daring the fevereft weather we have had, I have conitantly feen them running and fying 
about. ; 7 
nacle geefe (nas erytbropus of Linneus), and white-frented or laughing-geele (danas albi- 
‘Ia my Report for September, TL have, by miftake, inferted papilio byale for papilio edusa. 
Fhe large green caterpillar mentioned in the fame Report, as probably that of Bombysxe. 
_taxus of Haworth, 1s, I am informed by au entomoiogtcal friend, that of the female of 
Bombyx pavonus, or emperor moth. . . 
Hampshire. 
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
PTHE troft, which has prevailed during the greatefE part of the prefent month, has not 
Ly any means injured even the mof forward Wheats; they of courfe continue to look 
well and healthy. This has moft probably been the confequence of their being in mott 
places iightly covered with fnow. : 
The operations of the field have, however, been very much retarded by the above caufe, 
as it has been quite impotlible to proceed with them. ‘The bu&nefs of repairing the fences, 
aad that of ploughing, bas been quite et a ftand; cart-work and threfhing out the grain being 
only practicable. : 
The young ftork in the farm-yards, and the ftall-feeding beafts, have in common gone on 
well, food being, in Zeneral, pretty plentiful, efpecially in the more northern diftricts. 
The turnips, and other green winter crops, have flood the feverity of the weather, in 
moft cafes, in an unufual manner. dat ey ree 
_. The theep-ftock has, however, in many cafes, been greatly injured by the fnows, and in 
fome ftuations great numbers lof. ry 
All forts of grain have lately been confiderably on the advance; and both Flour and 
Oatmeal are now getting high—In England and Wales, Wheat averages per quarter, 
99s. 6d.; Barley, 41s. i1d.; and Oats, 53s. : . 
Potatoes have likewife had much rife in the price, though they are very. abundant in 
ywot of the northeri: counties. 5s rt 
- The prices of both fat and lean fteck keep pretty fteady.—In Smithfield Market, Beef 
- fetches from 3s. 8d. to 4s. 10d. per ftone of 8lb.; Mutton, trom 4s.-to 4s. 10d.; Fork, 
from: 4s. 8d. to 6s. 4d. pi det “ey ; 
’ In Smithfield Market, Hay fetches from 51. 5s. to 61. 68, per load; Clover, from 71, 7s. 
fo 71, 45s. 3 and Straw, from 4L 10s. to 1], 16s. ; oSy 
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