The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

THE HARVEST.

Although the harvest in the southern and more favoured
portions of the country has been brought to a close, there is,
throughout the northern districts, a considerable portion of
the produce yet exposed to the late ungenial wrath r, and it
has consequently sustained some damage. Suffolk and Nor-
folk are thou
ght to be the most productive counties thisyear;
in the former of which the wheat crop is described as about
an average, and in the latter, it is thought, will not fall much
short ; in every other direction the yield is reported deficient.
We have had a succession of splendid harvest weather, ith
every prospect of its continuance, to further and bring to a
close the operations of the farmer._pda.
The subjoined extracts are from the Scotch Papers :
Since this day week the weather has beer, all that could be
wished, and the operations of harvest are in rapid progress.
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As we have said before, the oat crop will be uniformly
The potatoes, however,will not be much
above
ti half
a heavy,
crop
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around Glasgow; and as for the turnips,(
(Tuesday),
will
et.a
b was e still
farther inferior. Yesterday morning Tu
sharp frost, and where people have time they are beginning to
lift their potatoes, as it is not anticipated that they will improve
much at this late period of the season.— Glasg o Chroetn,ffbTie effected
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stk.ed
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The harvest is now pretty well advanced, even'
land districts of the county—the last fortnight hav•
nin
a great change on the latest crops ; and, shouldthge present
or
itie
favourable weather continue for a fortnightcondition. Inr-'
the grain crops will be secured in very fair
some districts we learn that the farmers experience considera-
ble difficulty in obtaining as many shearers as they could em-
ploy, in consequence of the rapidity with which the corn has
latterly ripened. To obviate this inconvenience, might it not
be worth while to send a few carts to Ayr for a supply of hands ?
Turnips continue to improve both in shaw and bulb.—Ayr
Observer.
Shearing on the arable farms in the valleys
during the last ten days, with a little in has gone on
interruption
slight rains for a few hours at a time on rruption only of
these fay ms about,
or fully, .the half of the crop is cut, but very little is stacked
—not a twentieth part. On the cod and upper ridges, shear-
ing is in most cases commenced. The co
turity, has advanced for the last fortnightrP, in point of ma-
as much as it gene-
rally does at the same sesson ; and there is
that is not mixed in colour. Still the not much now
conclusion
vest will be a very late one. The lusion of the her-
inning are farther back thanoperations of shearing and
they
late year of Moat 6 The
crops look bulky on low dry
land ; but no farmer expects that, on the whole, in the district
the crop will be an average
one in produce, although many,
not practical men, seeing it only from the road, pronounce it
one.—lnverness Courier.
During the last four days
the weather has been exceedingly
beautiful ; and the harvest operations have proceeded gaily
under its genial influence. Yesterday (Tuesday) the wages
were Is. with
was less, while victuals. The attendance of shearers
Ed• _ , that of hirers was greater, than last Monday.—
Edinburgh
In not a.few instances the highest steeps accessible to the
plough, vie withthe
earli-
ness but weight of crop
they overlook, not merely in earli-
is most palmy op ; and, from whatever cause, their aspect
compared to 1836, or even last year at the same
season. Eight days
ago, the hills around Enterkin-foot were
covered with crops
be in stook ; and partially cut, every sheaf of which will now
on 1 the higher you ascended the prospect im-
provedyond the publicarge tracts of land stretching for miles be-
e. state of roads, but a few years reclaimed from
In the nature—rugged moss or unproductive moor.
In vicinityof S
anquhar stooks seemed commoner than
standing corn
of which
must have
stacks, too, graced every barn-yard, the number
mornings grey,
been greatly multiplied by another week of
rigs beautiful. followed by mid-days bright, and evenings
Even Corsoncon is no longer consigned to pasture
exclusively,and we were glad to see reapers busily at work
around its
seamybase, with lots of work in store half-way up its
ides.
Churlish as is the soil in Mearns Moor, it pre-
sents this year
a smiling aspect, compared to what it did in
1836, when,.
crop unreaped by the sickle in autumn, was ac-
tually burie'd
of by the plough in spring; and over the whole east
sir
former th-aAyrntslhire the oats and barley, and particularly the
ri to the tile draining, are much better than we
find expected to them. It. is yet premature to speak specifi-
cally of the .
in the followingyield of crop 1838; but there may be mach truth
sentence, which appears in the last 'number of
the Quarteri
neither so ll Journal v Agriculture :—." This season is
1816
and late.,l nor so wet, nor the crop so lad, as in . the years
of 18‘)'86: 7. It approaches more in character 'to the sea-
sonand let us never forget that the improved condi
tion of the soil*
and
much
moreis now so much superior to what it svas in 1828.
so than in 1817, that the same de,gree of wet
and cold weather
effects." _ can never again produce the sany,e injurious
"_Dumfries Courier.