The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1852.

with a superabundant harvest, the price of corn will
be so low that the farmer won't be able to pay his
way; a ticklish train of reasoning, by the way, for
rent-receivers, especially iu the present temper of the
farmers as to rents. Now, the wheat having turned
out to be somewhat blighted, and the harvest season
having proved precarious, the injuries the farmer
has sustained, and is likely to sustain, from the
season, are especially dwelt upon. It is intimated
that but for tree-trade, the price of blighted and
sprouted grain might have been forced up to such
a point, that the farmer, who does or ought to take
into his calculation the probable recurrence of bad
seasons, would have been indemnified against all ill
consequences at the expense of the consumers. It
is true this argument is not very broadly stated, for
the temper of the public mind would not brook such
reasoning, but the protectionist writers know well
enough the inferences farmers will draw from the
most deplorable pictures of their awkward position
under the aftliCtion of a wet harvest.
I will endeavour to give a correct and unexagge-
rated account of our position, and the actual state of
the crops. Of the existence of mildew and blight
there is no doubt, and in some districts the mischief
caused thereby is considerable. Everywhere the
yield of wheat will be much less than, from the
quantity of straw and the appearance of the crops
when growing, might have been reasonably expected.
The ears in most cases are imperfectly filled, and
much of the gram is thin ; there will thus be not
only a comparatively small yield from the straw when
threshed, but there must be a large quantity of the
inferior corn winnowed out, in order to make a de-
cent sample for sale. Whether this is attributable
to the long period of cold easterly wind in spring,
while the corn was forming, and before it shot out
into ear, as many farmers suppose, or to the subse-
quent exuberant supply of moisture followed by sud-
den and extraordinary heat, I know not; probably
all these things have combined to produce the not
very satisfactory results I have mentioned. But
with all these drawbacks, the crop of wheat will, I
believe, fall short of an average one in quantity, for
a great breadth of wheat was sown last autumn in
consequence of the fineness of the season, and every-
where there is much more than an average produce
of straw. The quality will not be good, and conse-
quently the prices of ordinary samples cannot be
high. The barley and oats crops are not affected by
disease, and the quantity of each kind of grain will
be large; though the barleys will be coarser and
darker in colour than last year's produce. Until the
last week the weather in all the southern counties of
England has been very precarious, scarcely forty-
eight hours passed without a considerable fall of
ram, and very many farmers have been induced to
carry their corn into the stack yard in bad condition;
some I have observed carting in the rain, and still
more long before the wet of previous rain had been
dried. In many districts the gram has grown in the
sheaf; especially where the fields arc small and the
hedges high, or where timber abounds. But I
must say that I have seen so many instances in
which much of such injury has been occasioned by
want of care and attention on the farmer's part, and
I have so frequently noticed such reckless id
to the state of the grain when stacked, that I do not
hesitate to say that for much of the mischief we
shall hear a good deal about next winter the farmers
have themselves to blame. It is true that in a large
occupation the farmer cannot, during a rainy season,
wait until all his corn is quite dry, and it is true also
that by allowing it to remain long in the field, or
long uncut, there will be much loss from the grain
falling out; but still it is better to risk some loss of
quantity by waiting for a breth in tho bad weather
than to hurry the corn into the stacks in such bad
order that the corn when threshed cannot be other-
wise than much out of condition. During the latter
part of the past week a good deal of wheat has Use
earned in better condition, and should we have ow
ther week of dry weather, all farmers who have kept
their corn in the fields will find themselves rewarded
for their predease by the possession of dry samples
of sees. The deeenptioe I have given applies to the
tethers half sir the island; in the north and in
lestlaed the wheat has not been much, if at all,
.tested by blight. sad the weather for harvesting
hes proved must men favourable. I believe, thres-
hes, that thin will mot be any deficiency taking the
whets seastry higether. and that with a large pro-
of fames the point year will be a wry
gold ass. The greatest sines will be the south
who by their system depend too ex-
= elliga= for misting their liabilities, and
Ido bee they will prat by the lesson this your
atiodh. that musk an ousimire dependence on grain
hs neidisrprelitable nor MAY To farmerewho have good
steaks st cattle and sheep, the present is a
most propitious time ; I sow saw gram so abundant,
while toruips sod meagold wurtsel cannot fail of
producing great weights per acre. All kinds of
stock, too, are remarkably healthy, and from the
abundance of good food are thriving prodigioauly.
Stock, therefore, will this year make up for some loos
on the grain crops.
I find in all districts the more intelligent sod less
encumbered landowners are making permanent lab.
provesenb on their farms, and re-adjusting their
teuants'oentracts ; but go where I may I hear ow
general complaint by tenants of the reluctance with
which landowners give up game peaervation. Now
as game preserved by the landlord's an absolute bar
to profitable farming by the tenant, this absurd pas-
sion for game forms at this moment one of the most
serious obstacles to agricultural improvement.
A MIDLAND COUNTIES FARMER.
Aug. 30, 1832.

SPORTING.

LINCOLN RACES-TUZSDAT,

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TRINOMIAL ATARI* of 10 sots. each, for colts Sot 71b,
Allies fist 31ts, die.; tbs mood saves his stake. Ono mils
sad a half. (16 subs.)
Kr. J. honon'e Maid of Lined'
Mr. W. L Moloon't Barbera
Won bys loses.
LINCOLIFSHIIII HANDICAP, of 10 son. sash, 6 IT, and 3
only if declared. Two Sallee. (28 subs., 16 of whom de-
clared.)
Mr. bone ad br m ?be link aettli• S yrs,let 7th, walk ewer.
BILLING STALIN 0(3 soya. each, sad 20 _for 8-yr-
olds and upwards, one mile, wens won in two heats by
Flamm, bating Lady of the Grove, Blank-eyed Soma,
and Snowdrift, wily.
litrassaie Brous* of 6 sous. each, and 20 added, for
3'yr-olds and upwards, two miles, were won in two beets
by Little Queen, beating tore. others.

ECCLES RACES.—MoxDAT.

TRI STAKES of 3 son each, and 16 added' 3-yr-olds,
7st Olb ; four, 21b; Are, SW 10ib ; six, and aged, Oat 21b;
marts and 'Mier' allowed 3 lbe ; whew» once albs ; twice,
131 be extra. One mile. (6 men)
Papal& Scott's Day mod Marta. t yrs .... (Weed) 1
Mr. &album ad brow, he, seed
Mr. Martin's Use's of the Volt, 6 in
Mr. Moors's lady Speedy, yrs
Mr. limey ad Casselte,
Won byyrs
two langlitr...*.
OINTLENIN'S PURSE Of 20 110111., added to a handicap of
3 son. each. One mile and thres•quarten. (6 subs.)
Mr. Ileadersoa's Crab* spa, eat 41b (rumbr)
Mr. W. Pbllllps's Mar 14abbler, aged, 6.011
(1 10 Settee Lady S yn, AA 1511
Queen of the Vale, Lady Bibms, mid the Sluggard also
ran, bet were not placed. Won by 3 lengths.
01.0 Boan's HRAD HANDICAP Of 6 SOM. sub, 2 ft,
and 1 only if declared, with 20 eon. added. (6 subs.)
Mr. Walker's This 4141, 4 yrs, 'at
Mr. )oblate'' lady Jewry, 6 yis, est 121 2
Mr. nauseam ad Diner to Fencer b yrr,
Mr. Lassyslisw's Alice, 6 yrs, re 41b . . .......—.
Cripple Kate bolted. Woe by terelesitits.
TUESDAY.
TIIAZPORD•PARIL STARR& of 3 son. web, and 26 eon.
added. One mile and three quarter,. (6 rube.)
Mr. W. Plilipurs=2.64lo(6llsr, seed
Mr. lissdassaa's
Mr. Leon MO** t yrs 3
GRAND STAND rano el 16 sous. was WOG by Brown
Fly, battier Wade Sao eed Labyrinth.
Oaten= Sews off nee. each, see mile (7 Dube.),
were iree by Lost MI ale% ita leak blades Lieut.
Croft's Hamm SWIM awl Campbell's Marmite.

STOURBRIDOE RACES.—MONDAY.
PINSTWOOD STAKYS, of 2 SOIL each, and 20 added, one
mile and a half, 3 subs, were won by Mr. Leech's Derby
(Don John gelding), 3 yrs, bat 131 b (Wells), besting Mr.
Pearce's Stranger's Daughter, 6 yrs, list 01b, and alet,
Est 131 b.
STOURDZIDON HANDICAP, of 7 som. each, 5 ft, sad 2
only if declared, with 60 added, the second to receive 16
sous. oat of the stakes. One mile and a quarter. (45 subs.,
83 of whom declared.)
Lord aortoriolero (Nolo* 8.7/1, lit 'fa

7;a011,
Mr.
Yardley MI am el 11 yrs,
Mr.
Id 411
11/~s him Miser, 4 yrs, ast 71b
Mr. J. insitnes Old& rA. 4 yrs, 7st
Mr. Brooke ad Sew Foam Wm, ailed, 41b
Mr. J. Minh a_ yrs, 3st Slasludlrst Slb eats)
RAILWAY PLATE of 301., added to a Sweepstakes of
2 sera each, one mile, 6 subs., was won, in two heats, by
Mr. lames Davies's Gay Lad, 6 yrs, 3st 131 b OS* beating
Mr. Rase's Greengage, 3 yrs, 64 131 b, Mr. Jones s Gaunt-
let, 6 yrs, Bst 71b, and Mr. Taft'a eh f by Don John, d by
Mandtg, 3 yn, 6st 81b.
EAST WORCESTIESIIIRII STAYER, of 3 WM. each, and
20 added, one mile and a half, 3 sub.., were won, in two
beats, byGlr. Leach's Derby, 3 yn, (401.),64 (Wells), beating
Stranger'. Daughter, 6 yn, 711 Mb (401.), and Mr. Jones's
Fairing, aged, Bat 1116 (l.).

CRICKET.

ELEVEN ONE-LEG9ED v. ELEVEN.

----- GREENWICH Piiithiikiiii:—
The resumption and conclusion of this intending annual
match took plus at the Oval yeatarday, where, as usual,
there wee a vast uvemblaga of spectators. The result will
be arrived at by a perusal of the score.
Oen Amok
Gorne.b Dom :I b Crone
AblibldliS. b Watebire ...--.... b Wiltshire
p_i4 no out roe set
WNW, b TlLltebtro
011/111111111. b Wtholtleo ... ....... .... b Como —..
St" b Qom .. 1 b Croon
X.
Wild** 1 2 Wiltilre, b *ea
b M0M*......
b Illiebleo
Mmes. net mg e Roos, liWilebine
ISA% kn..

Malin. Thompson expressed their desire to make every
arrangement with the parties required. The delay and
failure of the departure of the vessel wee M no way to be
attributed to them.
The parties, with the consent of the Lord Mayor, re-
tired, when it was subsequently stated a satisfsetory ar-
rangement had been entered into.