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"1810.] Agricultural and Meteorological Reports. — 519 
April 29. The cnckoo-pint, or spotted arum (arum maculatum,) is in flower. 
Numerous kinds of insect. of the se/pha, dermestes, and carabus tribes, are now seen rune 
ning and flying about the dusty roads. 
April 30. Ivy-leaved ranunculus .(ranunculus bederaceus.) Annual knawel (scleranthus 
annwus.) Common shepherd’s purse (th/aspi bursa-pastoris.) Hemlock-leaved cranesbill, 
(erodium cicutarium.) Subterranean trefoil (trifosium subrerraneum;) carex pr@cox, and carex 
riparia, are in flower. 
The cuckoo was this day heard. 
Leeches begin to crawl out of the weeds and mud, and to swim about. But hitherto, the 
persons employed in catching them have not been very successful. 
Hampshire. 
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MONTHLY AGRICULTURAE REPORT, - 
HE late warm weather has brought forward the spring corns in a remarkable manner, and 
considerably improved the wheats in most places; they. are however still thin on the 
&"ound in many situations. ; 
The grass-lands, both in pasture and for mowing, appear unusually backward, there being 
scarcely any where yet a full bite. In the former, the clovers are mostly good, as well as 
some other sown grasses. is : 
Grain of most sorts has risen much in price since our last, though it rather declined the 
Jast market day.— Wheat fetches from 76s. to 104s. per quarter; Rye, 44s. to 52s.3 Barley, 
34s. to 48s. ; Oats, 29s. to 50s. : 
Fat stuck still keeps up to its prices—Beef fetches from 4s. 6d. to Gs 6d. per Stone of 81b.; 
Mutton, 5s. 8d. to 63. 8d. ; Veal, 5s. to Gs. 8d. ; Pork, 5s.8d. to 6s 8d ; Lamb, 5s to 7s. 4d. 
Hay continues nearly the same as in our last.—-Hay fetches from 41.4s. to 71.3 Straw, 
Sl. 3s. to Bl. 5s. . 
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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT. 
Observations on the State of the Weather, from the 24th of April 1810 to the 
24th of May 1810, inclusive, Four Miles N.N.W. of St. Paul's. 
Barometer. 
Highest; 29°87. April 23, & several other days. 
Lowest, 29:1. May 16. Wind N. W. 
4 Thermometer. 
Higheft, 67°. April 29. Wind SE. 
Lowest, 379 18. N.W. 
: r This difference Onthe 19th of May 
Greatest } 34 hun- has occurred seve- Greatest the mercury was at 
variation in ‘ dredths of Y ral times in the | variationin ( 10°. the highest only. 50°; 
24 hours. an inch. course of the; 94hours. on the next day it 
month. stood at 60°, 
Notwithstanding the dryness of the season during the last month, we have had but little 
vain since our former report; it shall be estimated im the next Magazine. On ten days we 
nave had showers, but the remaining days of the month ‘have been very fine and brilliant; 
the weather however has been, and still is, cold for the season, the average height of the 
thermometer being but little more than 50°, which is nearly 6° short of what it was for the 
game period last year. 
The average height of the barometer is 29-576: from the 25th ult. tothe 2d of May, the 
mercury was almost stationary, scarcely varying a tenth of an inch in those days; it then 
began gradually to fall, and continued to sink tillthe 8th, with scarcely a single shower; it 
again rose, and again fell, before rain appeared. 
The wind, as is usual at this time of the year, has blown chiefly from the easterly 
quarters. It wasasouth-easterly wind that brought the showers on the 12th, and subsequent 
days. 
In the Isle of Wight the average height of the thermometer for 
January was 36°45. 
~ February 42:70. 
vs Viarch 4340. 
The height of the thermometer was taken at nine o’clock every morning, The quantity of 
rain fallen during the months January, February, and Mareh, equal te 6-i iaches indepth. 
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