The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-23 00:00:00

THE SCOTCH CORN suns.

Another week of choice weather has enabled
firmer' in the earlier &stride of Sootland to make •
favourable commencement of the harvest ; sad a number of
barley fields are now in stook, sad give fair promise of •
good result both as to yield and quality. Some portion of
the new crop will be brought to market this week ; but it is
as yet too early for any large quantity to be offered, and
little can therefore be yet said with certainty &bent the
quality or the probable production. A few fields of wheat
have be= cut in the Lothnoa. These look thin, but the
bead is mid to be large, and the grain plump and well
coloured. As the harvest advances, the impression cos-
tumes to deepen that the crop as • whole will not be
bulky, and will not be even up to an averse in bolls,
though, if the season continue dry little grain will be
lost; and though the quality will often prove unequal
and variable, it will be available for consumptive purposes.
The wheat and barley of the new crop brought forward at
the leading English markets exhibit considerable variety.
The large proportion of Essex and Kent samples is fine, and
shows ninny fine panels of red and white wheats, ranging
from 621 b. to 6Mb.per bushel ; but the Suffolk, Cambridge-
shire, Norfolk, and Lincolnshire samples give indications of
much greater variety and • nuns of weights from 581 b. up
to 651 b. per buaheL Barley is also in these counties in con-
siderable variety. Many choice rune are exhibited from the
Lilo of Thanes and the favoured districts to the south of and
round about London, but in the great barley growing
county of Norfolk this crop a very unequal.
Much of it is:really of fine colour and heavy weight,
but there is also • good deal thin, steely, rather
wane, sod not very suitable for brewers' cur.
poses. The oat crop seems by genets! admission to be ,
short and thin in almost all diaoricts of the country.
Lincolnshire is the only place where it is well spoken of ;
but the quantity raised in England is small as compared with
the Scotch production, which latter is this year certain to
be coneiderably under the usual average, and ceetaisly very
greatly under the yield of last year's crop. Beans and peas
seem generally pretty well reported of, though the dry
weather has very much affected them in some of the English
counties. Turnips than are generally a very poor crop;
bat in Scotland they now look well, and with little more
rain would prove • fine crop. The early potatoes eat well,
and as yet very little dream* is observable ; but the
yield is very chiaPPotratott. and the bolls per acre will
be much short of former years. The favourable harvest
time has • deprasieg influence on the grain trade, sod
business in wheat is almost at • standstill. Buyers
seem very reluctant to come forward, and only take
off as much as satisfies their immediate requirements.
Prises are again the turn lower, and factors have bees com-
pelled, whoa they have had to sell ex ship or sheds, to lower
their rates about la. per quarter. Generally, however, there
is sot much grain pressed cm the market. Holders seem
still &simile to wait for • better opportunity, and very
little of the wheat in loft is therefore as yet offered for
isle. Barley is still Deeded ; and as little can be bad for
grinding or distilling purposes, the prices of last week are
wall supported. Oats are dull, and rather difficult to
quit, except for the Inset qualities of Scotch, which sell
noddy enough at former rates. White pesos and bras
are still in fair demand at full rates, but the upward tea.
decry of these articles seems checked. The arrivals at the
leading peeta of the country this week are only moderato.
At London they amount to 7..!6,606 qrs. wheat, 1,706 qrs.
barley, 77,2110 qn total and 7,866 barrels and 50 sacks
flour ; at Liverpool, to 17, 794 qrs. wheat, 6,134 qrs. Indira
con, and 1,360 sacks and 3,763 barrels flour ; at Leith, to
2,351 gra wheat, 29 qrs. barley, 2,507 qrs. eats, 824 qrs.
beans, 277 tin pease, bed 2,544 sacks and 3 barrels flour.
The Trench crops are now said to be somewhat disappoint-
ing, and seem to have suffered considerably by excessive
drought. The yield, it is acid, will be under the estimate
formerly made, ad will certaiely be under an average; but
the principal objection now made is as to quality, which,
for all kinds of grain, will be much inferior to the crop of
1863. The wheat—indeed, all the cereals—bas ripened too
rapidly, and there has besides been such a want of sunshine
as to affect the colour and smoothness of the wheat and
barley crops especially, which often show • rough, dry, and
steely sample. In the Baltic provisoes the complaint within
the past weak is of wet and somewhat boisterous weather;
and accounts from Dantsic, Konigsberg, and Stettin state
that the bad weather is seriously interfering with harvest
operations, and is likely, unless • change to better weather
come quickly, to do severe damage to all the cropa—Crortish
Farmer.