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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 
"THE Wheat craps of both the late and early fowings have come on well fince our Iatt, 
and at prefent in many places quite cover over the furtace of the ground. They, per- 
haps, never looked more favourably, in’general, at this period of the year. The winter 
Barleys and Ryes are also pretty much in the fame Situation. 
The Winter Tare and Rape crops in different diftriéts have likewife a very fine appear- 
ance at this time.—In England and Wales, Wheat averages per quarter, 94s. ; Barley, 
46s. 4d.3 and Oats, 34s. 8d. hi tr 
The late turnip crops have alfo afforded a large fupply of both green and other food fur 
the fupport of fheep and cattle ftock, during the latter part of the prefent month, and have 
been particularly favourable for the lambing ewes in many fituations. 
The unufual fineness of the feafon, through moft of the month, has afforded a fine op- 
“portunity of putting in fpring crops in complete perfection, and great breadths of ground 
have been already fown with Oats, {pring Wheats, and other fpring crops, in the beft pof- 
fible Rate of preparation. te a 
Great breadths of early Potatoes have likewife been fet in fome diftri€ts in the early part 
of the month. 
The weather has likewife been extremely favourable for the making of new, and 
repairing the old fences, and much work of thiskind has been well accomplifhed. © 
The bufinefs of ploughing was, perhaps, never better performed than in the prefent 
feafon, the land having broken up remarkably well. 
The Tup ftock, as well as that of Cattle, have done hitherto extremely well: the Ewes 
have lambed down very well, in a vaft number of inftances, double lambs having been pro» 
duced:: 
The uncommon warmth and fineress of the month have, in various cafes, brought the 
Fruit-trees into mnch too forward a state, to expect any very great produce of fruit from 
them. 
The sales of both fat and lean ftock feem rather brifker.—In Smithfield market, Beef 
fetches from 4s. 6d. to 5s. 6d. per ftone of 8lb.; Mutton, from 4s. 8d. to 5s. 10d. 5 and Pork, 
from 6s. to 7s. | 
In the above market, Hay fetches from 6]. 6s. to 61. 10s. per load; Clover, from 71. to 
71. 7.3 and Straw, from 21, to 21. 5s. 
NATURALIST’s MONTHLY REPORT. 
FEBRUARY. 
Thawirg Month. 
The rivers swell 
Of bonds impatient, sudden from the hills, 
©’er rocks and woods, in broad brown cataracts, 
A thousand snow-fed torrents shoot at once. 
FoR the last thirty years, it is not remembered that the fresh-water floods have been $0 tre- 
mendous as during the present season. They have been known higher, but by no means 
of such long continuance. Some houses have had the water covering the rooms on the ground 
floor, for near amonth, without intermission; and it was not till about the 15th of F ebruary, 
that it began at all to subside. On the 12th, and 14th, we had some heavy hail-storms, ac- 
companied with violent gusts of wind. On the latter day, I heard several distant claps of thun- 
der. Atout the 21st the weather became settled, and continued so, with a few occasional 
showers, to the end of the month. 
February 1. Garden peas begin to shoot out of the ground. 
February 2. A small sycamore tree ina garden is now in full leaf. This is a singular cir- 
<umstance, asthe same tree has not been removed since its leafing last year, which was at the 
usual time. ‘ r A yl SG 
February 13. A skate*s egg, containing a live young one, was this day picked up on the sea- 
shore. 
On sunny banks in the fields the pilewort (Ranunculus fcaria) is in flower: and in the gar= 
dens, snow- drops, crocuses, mezerium, and hepaticas. Daffodils, narcissusee, and hyacinths, 
are beginning to shoot up their flower buds. oe ee 7 
February 19. We have indications of the reviving year from insects as well as plants. Se- 
veral species of ptinus begin to come abroad, the lady cow (céccinella septem punctata) and 
some of the kinds of cicada. I'have not yet beard the death-watch, ( Ptinus tessellatus) : in the 
cousse, however, of a week or ten-days these insects, 1 expect, will commence their beating. 
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