The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-09 00:00:00

AORICULTCIRAL PROSPECTS.

The week opened with favonrable weather, which
lasted until Monday evening, whew a change appred .L
hand, and some shght showers fell. Up to this point good
speed had been made with harvest work.
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On Tuesday our advices from Suffolk state:—"Harvest
operations have most rapidly and satisfactorily progressed
owe this day week until last evening, when some quantity
of rain fell. We believe four-fifths of our wheat crop are,
however, wifely homed " From the sun, county, usurer
the coast, it was observed -" The greater portion of the
wheat in this district is secured, and the bulk thereof in
good order. Thrashing has been going on an freely as
harvest work will permit; and the complaints of a defi-
cient yield reach us from all quarters, the maximum being
three quarters per acre on really fine staple soils, soil we
fear our average will not be more than two sod a half
Quarters per acre ; but perhaps it may yet, be too early to
jump at unsatisfactory conclusion"
Throughout Tuesday night and early on Wednesday nu.ro•
ing some heavy rain had fallen, and in parte of the country
the weather was very unsettled. Harvest work, therefore,
was checked ; and any corn carted on that day must have
been got up is very poor condition.
From Norfolk our informant says:—" We bad rain yester-
day; otherwise it has been fine since this day week. and
great progress has been made in securing the oorn. Nuerly
all the wheat and three•fourths of the barley are safe, and
generally in lbw order. The yield KOMI, from present re.
port, to be as good as was estimated, and, as if we should
report (the crop as now gathered, to be rather below an
average one." From Worcestershire, on the same day, it
was stated—" The weather is all that can be desired for the
harvest, and in some districts the thrashing machine has
been taken into the field, and the crop thrashed at once
without ricking. The crop of wheat is not near an averege
one."
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There were slight showers on Thursday ; but the rain
falls chiefly in the night. On that day our advice' from
Suffolk say :—" With the exception of five hours' rain on
Tuesday, we have had another week of fine harvest weather.
Nearly all the white corn in this immediate district is
secured ; but all along the coast and inland a small portion
of the wheat and about two-fifths of the barley are still out.
With firm weather until Saturday evening, our crops here-
about. may be called nearly safe. From the emus county
inland our advice, rue :—" Nearly all the wheat crop is now
secured. Red qualities are superior to the white, and, as
was expected, yield better. About half the barley is car-
tied ; the other half, partly cut and pertly Mending, exposed
to the weather, which, after a splendid fine fortnight, has
this week broken up."
From Lancashire it was stated that the fall of rain sines
Tuesday night to Thursday was 2 inches.
On Friday showers fell at intervals; sad from Lincoln-
shire, on that day, our informant says :—" We are now in •
very precarious state with respect to our harvest ; and if
the wet continues about two more days, sprouting will
have commenced. About one-third of the wheat is stacked
hereabout,, not dry, but sound, and will come right if not
thrashed until it is dry in the stack. What is left out is a
problem as to how it will prove. There can be but very
limited supplies of sew wheat from this district for some
time to come. All the barley is in stock, or nearly so, and
will soon suffer seriously. I see no appearance of any im-
provement in the weather at prment." From Yorkshire, on
the same day, it was written :—" Since Tuesday we have
bad a good deal of rain and little harvest work done,
though to-day has been moderately fine, and with no rain
up to this time."
Saturday proved an unfavourable day, being muggy and
close, although with not ranch rain. The evening was thick
sad fow, and but little corn could have been carried. (hi
the what, then, • considerable check has been occasioned
wherever the rains were heaviest. In Lincolnshire, the ankl-
lead counties, Yorkshire, and farther north this hasbeen the
case, and the prospect of securing the corn in primecondition
is DOW quite dependent on the future state of the weather.
In Scotland the commencement of the wheat barred may
not be next week, although, if fin*, they might have begun
in the Lothians towards its close. A September harvest in
that part of the United Kingdom is a precarious one, and,
with the present broken and unsettled weather, not for the
moment very promising.—dfark Lane Express.

LONDON WEEKLY.

RETURNS. -Stn. 6.
.Deliverd.lir. Black 1861.

47,400
NAN
136,170
2,047
212,172
41,222