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y MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT, 
THE concluding month has not been leds favourable to the farmer, than thofe that have pre- 
ceded it, from the mild and open flate of the weather. The early fown wheats louk well, 
and the late fown crops are coming forward in the moft promifing manner, and have in general 
a very healthy appearance. Old grain ftill continues to be fold at high prices, but corn in gene- 
ral, in the Country markets, may be faid to be on the decline, particularly barley and oats.— The 
prefent average of all Englandis, Wheat, 34s. 4d.; Rye, 518. 8d.; Barley, 455-5 Oats, 27s. 
The ciover feeds prove difficult to thrafh, and the red fort is likely to prove a very interior 
erop ; what has been threfhed turns out very little [eed for the quantity of ftraw.—In Whitechapel 
Market, Hay fetches from 31. to 41. toss; Clover, 4l. 4s. to sl. 5s-; Straw, 11. 16s. to 21. 4s. 
From the mildnefs of the weather on the firlt half of rhe month, the ftock in the paftures have 
done well; and lean cattle at the late fairs have declined much in value, particularly fheep and 
hogs. Cows and calves, good frefh horles and cait colts, obtain however great prices. 
The feeding and fattening of the d:fferent forts of ftock, have feldom been conducted with 
more advantage than in the prefent feafon.—ln Smithfield Market, 
Beef fetches from 4s. to 
ss. 8d, ; Mutton, ss. to 5s. 8d.; Weal, 6s. to 7s.; Pork, 3s. 8d. to 4s. 8d. 
The more general operations of manuring the grafs lands, ditching, hedging, and gripping, as 
well as thofe of breaking up leys, nave likewile been performed with more than uiual facility, 
from the circumftance of the weather having been fo highly favourable. 
OLfervations on the State of 
the Weather, from the 25th of November, to the 24th af December, 
3804, inclufive, two Miles N. W. of St. Paul's, ¥ 
Barometers 
Dec. 18 & 19. 
December 13. 
From the even- 
ing of the 13th 
Greateft 85 hun- inft. to the fame 
warjation in « dred hs of ie on the 14th, 
Hizheft 30.35. Wind N.E, 
Loweft 28.90. 
24 hours. an inch the mercury rofe 
from 2890 to 
29-75» 
Winds. W. |. Loweft 12°. 
Thermameter« 
Higheft 51°. December 14. Wind S.W, 
December 24. Wind NYE. 
At feven o’cock in 
the morning of the 22d 
Greate inft. the thermeme:er 
variation in \ Sr°< ftood at 33°; at the 
1 4 “ 
24 hours. fame time on the next 
day it was no higher 
than 12° 
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The quantity of rain fallen during this month is nearly equal to 9-roths of an inch in depth. 
Vhe prefent has been a true December month, in general gloomy and cold. On the 6th inft. 
a very thick fog completely enveloped the metropolis about ten o’clock in the morning ; it fors 
tunately did not laft more than about half. an hour, or many ferious accidents muft have been the 
confequence ; but during that time it was impoffible to fee any thing at the diftance of a few 
inches. Snow has fallen on five different days during the month, but in no great quantities. The 
degree of co'd yefterday morning, viz. twenty degrees below the freezing point, was unufual for 
the month of December. It was aceompanied by a very white froft, which is in general an indi- 
cation of achange in the weather. The freft, in conformity to this obfervation, feems to be 
giving; during the whole of the laft night (the 24th) the mercury was) not once as low as the 
freezing-point. It is often obferved, that within twenty-four hours after the fudden and rapid 
rife of the barometer, the weather changes trom fair to foul. ‘The fudden rife on the 13th w s 
an exception to this general rule; and exceptions to this and other rules have occurred feveral 
times during the jatt fix months. 
General Summary of thz State of the Weather, from Chriftmas-day, 1803, to Chrifimas day, 
1804. 
_ The mean height of the barometer for the peas is equal to 29.873; that of the thermometer . 
is 509 65’. The quantity of rain fallen is equal to fomething more than 34 inches in depth, 
which is a larger quantity by 6 inches than fell during the laft year. z 
During the year there have been 103 days in which rain has fallen, and 17 in which there _ 
has been fnow or hail; 144 may be reckoned as very brilliant, and the remaining 102 may be 
nearly equally divided into what are deemed fair and cloudy days. | ) 
The ftate ot the wind has been as follows: 25 days the wind has been north; 
9 eat ; 11 fouth; 
41 weft; g6 north eaft; 33 north weft; 16 fouth eaft; and 135 fouth-wett. 
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