The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-25 00:00:00

The Harvest.

Should the weather continue fine the harvest in
this district (Newmarket) will be nearly, if not
quite, finished during the week. Some farmers,
even in the heavy soil neighbourhood, have already
finished, and the crops have been gathered in fine
condition. Formerly the harvest on heavy land
farms was from a fortnight to three weeks later
than that on light and medium soils, but now it
is almost as early, owing to the beneficial effects
of good draining. The wheat is reported to be of
an excellent quality, and rather above the ordinary
average. Barley is an unusually heavy crop, but
in many instances is of a bad selling colour. Some
have deferred the carting of it for a few days, in
the hope of getting some rain, which, it is thought,
would considerably improve it in appearance, and,
of course, enhance its value. The oats are heavy,
and of a fine quality, but t:le bean crop is inferior
to that of last year.

Should there be another ten days of dry weather
the harvest will be nearly to an end for this year,
and grain of all descriptions will have been housed
in the primest condition for thrashing. At the
time we write, however, there has been some
steady rain, of which the root crops stood sorely in
need—at least in this neighbourhood, We have
ocoasionally heard of storms elsewhere, but around
Salisbury there has not been sufficient rain to
penetrate the soil to any depth since the begin-
ning of June. The pastures are completely
parched, and there is but little grass in the
water meadows. Dairy produce has, consequently,
advanced in price, and the prospects for
the coming winter and early spring are
anything but encouraging; seeing that the swede,
turnip, and mangold craps ivili be far below the
average. In some places farmers have already had
to give their cattle hay, and those who have a super-
abundant supply of this description of provender
will doubtless remise high prices for the same dur•
ing the winter. There has been a good breadth of
wheat carried, and, looking at the character of the
season, not much fault can be found with the yield.
Of course it will be far below that of last year, but
there being a pretty good stock in hand, nothing
but war or other unforeseen circumstances will en-
able the farmer to obtain anything like remunera•
tive prices. With the high rents paid for most farms
we fear that even Mr Huxtabie himself would not
increase the balance at his bankers by growing
wheat at ss. a bushel. It has had to be done, it is
true, but the last three years have been most trying
and anxious ones to the holders of arable farms.
About the usual number of acres have been sown to
barley, but owing to the long continued drought
the crop is light and thin, with of coarse very little
straw, The early sown- will prove the best for malt-
ing purposes. The olt crop is unusually light, and
excepting in strong, retentive soils, beans are a
general failure. We have seen only two or three
good samples, and the yield will be unprecedent-
edly small, owing to the excessive blight which has
prevailed, Good beans are likely to fetch high prices.
Similar observations are applicable to the pea
crop, which, owing to the parched state of the
ground, is very deficient. Here, again, the
advantage of early sowing has been rendered
strikingly apparent. Less flax is grown in this
neighbourhood than in North Wilts and in some
parts of Dorsetshire, but most of the accounts are
favourable, and we are surprised that farmers do not
devote more attention to this crop, for which there
is now a more remunerative market than has been
the case for many years, Most of the late planted
potatoes will hardly repay the cost attending them,
but there is very little disease, and the tubers,
though small, are of good quality for the table.
The season has been a capital one for the destruction
of weeds, and every advantage has been taken of
the opportunity.—lViltshire Mirror.

NOTTINGIL6ISIIIRE.—Since last week the wea-
ther has been broken. On Sunday morning we
had a heavy thunderstorm, and several hours of
refreshing rain followed. Since then there have
been several showers, which must prove very bene•
ficial to the pastures and root crops. In many parts
of the county farmers have secured the whole of their
corn crops, and on good heavy lands the yield of
wheat will be nearly an average: Oa the loose sand
soils the crops are very light, and there will be a
considerable deficiency. Barley is the best crop of
the season. Generally the plant has done well, and
the yield will reach a full average. Oats are
variedly spoken of, but altogether the yield is very
light. Beans aro thin. Peas aro a fair crop. In the
southern part of the county wheat is a good crop on
the marsh and subsoils, and the quality of the grain
is fine ; on the light lands it is uneven. Barley pro-
mises exceedingly well. Oats and beans are short in
straw, and the yield is indifferent. Potatoes are
sound and of good quality, but small in size. Turnips
have mostly proved a favour—the early Swedes
promise the best, Mangolds are a very poor crop.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN THE NORTH
OF ENGLAND.—In the crops generally
arc looking admirable, both grass and routs, which
have nearer London suffvred b 0 much front drought,
being at least up to the average. This is certain to
render 18(34 a profitable year for Northern farmers,
hay and other fodder rapidly rising in value owing
to the short yield in other localities. Good hay,
which a few weeks ago was selling at 6d. per stone
of 14 lb., now realises 91., end many dealers expect
that in spring it will reach the, maximum attained
during the Crimean war—ld. per lb. In anticipa,
tion of this state of matters, vast herds of cattle are
being sent from Berkshire and neighbouring COLIE..
ties to the Manchester,Liverpool, Leeds and Wake.
field markets, instructions to dealers being to dispose
of them at anything approaching reasonable prices
in preference to their having to be kept on southern
estates during the coming winter. Hero they can
be fattened to a profit, there being no lack of
nourishing vegetation, the country presenting
completely diirereut aspec6 to that on Gov LeDdoi:

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MID-LOTIIIAN.—Harvest work is now proceit a
ing rapidly, and reaping is general eI rer the early
and middle district. The barley is a full average
crop of apparently fine quality. IVIL ..eit, is also en
average crop. Oats are light, and on ,several farms
in exposed situations, where the soil is light, the
crop is very poor, and even in deep soft soils it is
below the average. Although the ,re are exceptions
in general this year's grain crop w-:11 bulk less in the
barnyard than that of several years past. The
few showers which fell on .`..iattird3y and Sunday
were very unequal in amctint of rain or extent of
country over which they pass(2cl, and have bad little
effect on turnips or potatoes, which are suffering
from drought.

.111ARKINcti.—Under the very favourable weather
of late the crops have made much progress, and this
week harvcst has been generally commenced. list
week a few fields and tome patches of barley 'were
cut, and on Saturday some carrying was done.

CRIEFF.—The dry warm weather which has prea
vailed since the beginning of August has hastencjj
rue ripening of the grcin with astonishing rapidity.
Numerous fields of barley have been reaped near the
town during the past week, and in the course of a
few days harvest will be general in the district.
The yield of oats upon the whole will not be bulky
in either grain or straw, for in many instances the
frosty mornings and excessive heat during the day
have ripened the crop too soon. Barley, however,
to which a large breadth of ground has been de-
voted, will be the most bulky yield we have had for
a number of years, and the quality of the graill
generally will be very fine. On the farm of Fa rr
and Milnab several stacks of barley have been cart,ed
to the stackyard, and by the end of next week the
greater part of the crop in this district will be in
stook and stack. The want of rain is severely fc it.
Potatoes and turnips are suffering from it ; while
pastures are completely browned and bare, and the
flocks in many places are on short allowance.

CLACKMANNANSIIIRE AND VALE OF DEVON.—.Tho
fine warm weather experienced for three or four
days in the beginning of last week had a wonderfu'i
afect on the growing crops in this locality, mellows,
ing the colour and filling the ears. Warm, howev sr,
as it was during the day, a sharp pinch of frost 'etas
been felt at night, or rather early in the morniag,
and fears were entertained that the whitening pro-
cesa was being obtained at the expense of a full ear.
This, it is hoped, will be counteracted by the heavy
showers that have fallen since. The weight of the
oat crop in general cannot be spoken of at present,
as the heads are as yet in some places rather light,
but it is hoped it will turn out a very fair average.
Wheat is generally very fair, and barley particu-
larly good. This latter crop is almost all ripe,
and its cutting is either finished or has commenced
on various farms. The harvest is almost gen,.-
ral round about Alloa and the lauds sloping
down to the Forth, but will be fully a toy ti
night later in the eastern and upper parts of the
county. In the strath of Devon the harvest is
about to commence. The state of the root crop is
highly favourable. The potato was thrown about
three weeks back by the frost that blackened the
haulms, but there is no word of disease making its
appearance, and the tubers in the field, though not
dry, as they would be if ripe, are plentiful and
full-sized. The turnip crop is fully three weeks
earlier than usual, and is throughout, with few
exceptions, very good. There have been a few
sales of growing oats throughout the county, at
which the prices realised have averaged from tour
to five guineas an acre, The weather towards th
end of last week was much broken, and heavy
showers of rain, mingled with hail, have been f re.
quent, and the wind easterly: Monday was fair,
but somewhat cold.

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