The Express.
London, England, 1860-09-06 00:00:00

SUSSEX AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

A more diaaatrous mouth for the corn crops than
the one that has just pawed could not well be inuigiued ;
it was • continued succmaion of wet days, in fact them was
not a single day throughout the month that some rain did not
fall. The backward state of the crops, combined with the
unfavourable weather, caused in the minds of even the most
sanguine serious misgivings as to the result of the harvest,
whilst those who are inclined to take • gloomy view of
things predicted nothing leas than famine. Fortunately
the aspect of affsin has greatly improved during the last
few day., the weather having become settled. The
la of September was very fine, with a strong
drying wind, which was of great service, as the
wheateheaves, being much satur.ited with wet, required
wind as well as sun to dry them. A few wheat ricks were
made on that day, but it must have been in very indifferent
order, and cannot be fit to thrash until after Christmas.
We have had three splendid harvest days since, and at pre-
sent there is every appearance of • continuation of fine wea-
ther, so that our prospects are far mom cheering than they
have been for • long time pat, and should we he favoured
with a continuation of it for two or three weeks longer the
great bulk of the crops in this county will be safely housed.
As to the prospect of the yield there is much diversity of
opinion, not that any one supposes that it is possible there
can be an average crop of wheat, but many are disposed to
think that the deficiency will be very considerable. Our
own conclusion is, that, until Noose of the new crop is
thrashed, it is difficult to say how it may turn out. On dry,
well farmed lauds, we think there is • very fair crop, but
many of the flood pieces have been much laid, and have
consequently beet in g by the wet; there is also a
considerable deal of t, especially among the
chaff, white wheats ; of course all this is • draw=
The poor clay sad are very bail, arid the yield will be far
below an average. On many of the down farms the crop is
also very indifferent, more particularly on the light chalk
soil ; it is in many places very thin and a good deal blighted.
There has been but little real harm done so far as to the
corn being sprouted, but with such • summer re we have
had it is impossible that the quality can be goal, and
we quite expect (however fine the weather may be for
the getting in of the harvest) that the average weight of
this year's growth of wheat will not much exceed 5811 e.
per bushel. The crop of barley varies much ; there will
be sonic of good quality should it be carried without
rain, but a great deal will be coarse and inferior. Oats,
in the down farms, are by far the best crop. Some of
them are very fine, even' upon very thin, poor land ; on
the clays they are very bad, and we are afraid that it will
prove a most rations year for the weelden farmers. Pea
are generally very indifferent, and even where there was a
fair crop they will be half lost, as they have laid so long on
the ground that the pods Lave opened and the peas shot
upon the ground. The potato crop is more seriously injured
than it has been in any year since the disease first made its
appearance. Under the most favourable circumstances at
least one half of the crop is destroyed, hut in most cases a
much larger) roportion is diseased. We can speak of our
own knowledge of fifty acres that would hardly repay the
cost of the seed for planting.--Smseer Paper.

Sirrrien WEr.—Settled wet in this country
usually comes from the south-west, and we have bed it this
year chielly from the south-west ; our disastrous storms
that give the year a melancholy prominence in the long
annals of fingtish shipwreck were from that quarter. But we
have had rain also from all other quarters of the sky.
During our wet autumn season the south-west wind coal.
monly prevails ; in OUT dry springs we have north-easters.
The wet of summer is eoaoeiated with winds from between
north and west, but these wind. act lather by oondrnsing
vapour than like the warm and moist isurrente from the
south-west by bringing up the rain. If there is a high tem-
perature with a south-west wind, the vapour may be thin
and invisible, the weather most delightful. if the slimmer
be odd, as it is sometimes made in our country by the pre-
sence of an unusual number of icebergs in the Atlantic,
while the south-west wind blows, the sky must cloud over
and the rain must often fall. As the icebergs may chill our
sumnien, so may an unusual extension of the Gulf strewn
sometimes warm our winters. Derwin' &bine thus se.
counts teethe extreme mildness of the winter 1821-2, for in
that year the Gall stream, instead of reaching only to about
the meridisn of the Azores, flowed to the shores of Europe.
"AU Ike Year Round." - _ _

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