The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1822-05-15 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

BERWICKSHIRE.
[From de Edielnirgit Star.]

The weather is the course of April ha, been in general
very 'sad, and is the cad of the mouth it was charming.—
On tea days we had very moderate showers of rain; coati-
seed raw on the itth and 12th, with slight hail and 'now
showers ea the Sib, 9th, I Ith, tied 19th. There was pretty
load thunder and vivid lightning on the 13th, 15th, and
'list. Oa the 15th the thermometer stood at 64 degrees of
aeon, in the shade, in a northern exposure' and at 67 de-
grees, at 1 p.m. on the 311th. In the night of the 10111
there was a beautiful lunar rainbow. Vegetation has made
great progress • wheat, the begird of oats, barley, where
it has appeared, and pease, are healthy and promising;
you,' clever* are thick, and pushing away very fast,
and the pastures, is favourable aituatioes, afford a full
bite. There has been plenty of fodder and turnips fur keep-
ing aad feeding stock. The fellows, which began to be
cross-ploughed by the 10t1, are proceeding is good style
fur their respective crops. The plaetiog of potatoes is go-
big briskly forward; mid a great prupottion of tee dung
for turnips is already is the fields, and the land drilling up
for the Swedish serail's. The flocks are healthy and in
good ceedities. The lambing season foe Cheviot stock is
wow nearly eoseleded There art a great many twins, tied
there has bees ow lose by the weather or want of food.
There has been some loss of ewes by inflammation after
droppiag their yoseg, owieg to their high condition. Some
of the latest taken grass parks fell considerably in real
from thee* which were let earlier. The market fur fat cat-
tle has drupt a little during the month. At C,oldstresia,
on the 25th, there was • good chew of fat, which were
mostly sold at from be. to Os. per stone Dutch, sinking
the *Kale. At Kelso, ow the 26th, there was the fullest
market of fat that say person remembers is that place;
a good malty were sold from 4s. 6d. to lia. per stone,
and a member retarsed borne. There were about fifteen
scare of fat sheep, which met a ready sale at • smaU advance
above preceding sake in April. The grain market also iro-
preyed a little in the end of the mouth. The finest sam-
ples of wheat reached 415.; barley, 16s. to 15..; oats, 13e.
to 16e.; and pease, 20s. to 22.. per bull of six Winchester
bushels : oatmeal 28.. to 30s. per load, sold is retail at 2e.
to Is. 4d.; barley sad pease, ditto ls. dd. per stone. Single
servants were hired at Lauder os nearly the same terms
as last year; womee ditto, from 41. to 41. 15s, and some 51.
and men ditto, oe nearly the same terms; day labourers are
swirly all employed. Nothwiihsianding the cry of agrical-
tural distress that pervades the United Kingdom, there wee
sever more eagerness discovered to obtain high rents, and
seldom greater competition for the farms that have been let
in this county is the course of the spring. In general, a
considerable rise above whatever was paid 'fur them is pro-
moted. What will be the result, lime alone must determine.
—April 30.

CUMBERLAND, WESTMORLAND, dna NORTH-
UMBERLAND AGRICULTURAL REPORT.

[ From t►e Carlisle Journal]

Throughout most of last mouth very changeable wea-
ther has been experienced: scarcely two days elapsed bit
the different districts were visited with a series of the va-
rious element., which rendered wet lands under tillage
refit to undergo • necessary promo of management. The
winter crops of Wheat, on dry lands, have repelled the
attacks of the late boisterous gales, and are now in a state
of perfection Amen to bid defiance to any blast that may
threaten its Bourwhing stem ; but on cold, wet, sad pow
soils, it has a blade and faint colour, and indicates little more
than half • crop. On strong soils the farmers have been
under the netestity of stocking their wheat lands with sheep,
to c►eek its too rapid 'nacres., which not oaly retards the
substance springing too fast, but benefits the soil also. The
Oat, Barley, Bean, and Pea seed time is gut over, and, from
external appearances, they have all a promising aspect, and
will soon shade mother earth wit► variegated colours. The
Potato planting season is now on, and every facility is going
on for the preparation of the Turnip tillage. The winter
craps of Clover and Rye Gms seeds, where preserved, have a
very promising appearance on dry wails, or high raised ridges;
sod matured grass, both for hay sod grazing (to the high as
well as the low lands), hid. fair to promise • plentiful and
an early crop.—The stall fat rattle and tornip sheep will
scarcely be disposed of before the grass fat will appear in the
market. —The luxuriant and promising crop of fruit has not
sustained any injury in our northers districts, and the oldest
persons cannot remember witnessing every species of fruit
in such ■n early stare—Several blood, road, and draught
stallions have been shown for the present season in the dif-
fetes t market towns, which will prove to breeders a great
acquisition. The demand for good saddle ■od harms
horses continues brisk, and prices good, and good draught
horses have also been is better demand, and • little at'
in priec.—Cattle fairs and shows, in the above districts,
have been attended with greater numbers of English, Scotch,
and Irish cattle than met the demand; those sold fetched
considerably less pric►s than they cost last year —Sheep
dropping in price, although • demand exists. Wool steady.
The lambing reason uu high end low countries has beta
favourable. Store pigs steady. Bacon •tatlousry, at 4.. 3d.
per shre, of 141 W. real plentiful.