The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-06 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

During the last few day, s we have had some ex-
tremely heavy showers, and much close, thick, cloudy
weather, with ccasional thunder peals; but at inter-
vals, as on Sunday and other mornings, the sunshine
has been bright and warm. The corn and green crops
in this neighbourhood setAn luxuriant and flourishing,
but we . ore afraid the hay which is cut may be da-
maged if the wet continues.—Manchester Guardian.

A locg lingering hay harvest is now being brought
to a close throughout this district. The late dropping
weather has certainly damaged a good deal of hay, but
the early harvest was well ended, and the swathe a
fair average. The pulse harvest has commenced, and
of peas, beans, and vetches the reports are very favour-
able. Swedes and mangold wurzrl now promise a
more beautiful crop, and the moisture has been very
favourable to the sowing of common turnips. The bar-
leys are looking very healthy, and with a propitious
harvest the crop will no doubt reach a full average.
We regret, however, to receive conflicting accounts of
the wheats; blight is certainly prevalent more or less
everywhere ; we hope, nevertheless, it is not nearly
so severe as it was last year. The hop grounds of
this district begin to wear a most luxuriant appear-
ance, and should the high temperature of yesterday
(Friday) continue throughout the month the crop
will certainly be large. In the orchards the crops
of both pears and apples are partial, "lucky" orchards
may turn out large quantities of fruit, but generally
speaking, the bulk must be under an average. 'We
have great pleasure in stating that all accounts agree
in anticipating an abundant crop of late potatoes, and
as yet there is no general appearance of disease.—
Hereford Times.
Alcer having made numerous inquiries we are glad
to be in a position to state that the harvest pros-
pects of this district are most promising. The wheat
crops are vigorous and abundant, and though we
have recently had a considerable amount of mois-
ture there are no signs whatever of the appearance
of blight, mildew, or other disease ; the plant is laid in
places owing to late rains, but a few breezy days with
bright sunshine will put all to rights again. The
farmers in the fen districts of this county were severe
sufferers from the prevalence of mildew, which spoilt
the most luxuriant crops of last year, but we hope that
this year the heaviness of the yield will compensate
them for their former losses. The turnip crop, about
which serious fears were entertained a short time ago,
owing to the destructive ravages of larvae, under the
invigorating influence of late rains is in a great mea-
sure recovering, and many farmers who had almost
despaired of realising a crop, now feel confident of
having an almost average yield.—Lincoln Times.
We have had another week of variable weather.
Heavy showers of rain have sadly impeded the hay
harvest, but they have done good to the turnips and
potatoes, and have not injured the corn crops. The
general temperature is still too low for the season.--
Carlisle Patriot.

The weather, which was showery and somewhat
backward during the middle of the week, has again
improved, and crops of all sorts make good progress.
The display of culinary vegetables and fruit in the
New Market yesterday was particularly good and ex-
ten si ve.—Aberdeen Herald.

The crops in the neighbourhood of Stirling may
now be safely pronounced to be good. Wheat for
many years has not promised so large a return, and
as fallow wheat is scarcely at all grown now, there is
little, if any lodging; therefore the yield will, with
moderate weather, be more true and abundant
than formerly, when no year passed without
considerable lodging. Barley is heavy, and in some
places is already a good deal lodged, which will, un-
doubtedly, be against both the weight and quality of
the sample. The potato, hitherto, is safe from the
disease ; but as much less space is now covered with
this root close to town than in former years, where
grown it looks well. Turnips, as formerly mentioned,
still promise a❑ abundant crop.—Stirlin,g Observer.
The weather since our last has been very good, and
the crops have made some progress. The moisture, of
which there has been no lack, and the heat have had
the effect of lengthening the straw of the grain crops,
so that in this neighbourhood the crops will not be so
deficient i❑ this particular as was at one time feared.
In Strathspey and Strathdearn the oats promise re-
markably well, and if they escape frost the yield will
be very large—the crop is as fine a one at this moment
as perhaps ever was seen, though late. The potatoes
are very backward.—lnverness Courier.
Since the middle of the month we have bad fre-
quent and often heavy showers, and July closes with
better harvest prospects than we could have ex-
pected two or three weeks ago. Barley, oats, and
spring-sown wheat, which looked rather backward at
that time, now promise to be a fair, but not a heavy
crop. The turnips have felt the invigorating influ-
ence of the copious rains, and even in the fields
where they were twice sown a fair crop might be
expected. Some fields of barley in this neighbour-
hood have quite a yellow hue, and will soon be
ready for the sickle. We do not hear of any com-
plaints of disease among the potatoes.—Perthshire
Advertiser.

The rain which fell two weeks ago has had the
effect of considerably improving the crops. Since
Sunday we have had several falls of rain, and as
moisture was much required upon the east coast for
the green crops, it will have a favourable effect
upon them. Wheat is very much improved, and
wintersown, almost without exception, promises to be
a full crop ; upon deep clay soils the produce may be
confidently anticipated as being most abundant. A
considerable breadth of it is partially laid, which will
probably affect the quality. Spring sown wheat is
also considerably improved; the head is large, which
will so far compensate for the thinness of plant upon
the ground. Many fields are late, which is against the
chances of its being an average yield. Barley is almost
everywhere a promising crop ; several of the fields are
twisted and considerably laid. A full average crop of
this grain may be expected, especially upon land in
good condition. The oat crop is almost everywhere
short of straw, and seems to have suffered more from
drought than the other cereals. Beans and peas seem
everywhere to be stunted from the want of moisture.
Hay is everywhere a remarkably short crop ; the
quality, however, is excellent, and is selling from Bd.
to 10d. per stone of 221bs. Potatoes, of which there
is an unusual breadth planted, have hitherto suffered
from the want of moisture and sunshine, especially
upon clay soils. Occasional fields are to be seen of great
luxuriance, but these are the exceptions. The present
rain will, no doubt, materially improve them, but
although they escape the rot, an average weight will
not be attained. There is a greater breadth of turnips
sown this year than ever we remember to have seen.
The swedes have suffered more from fly and parasites
than the yellow or white varieties, of which a full crop
may be anticipated. Pastures have everywhere suf-
fered from the want of moisture, and great complaints
exist as to the want of food for stock, to holders of
which the present rains will prove of the greatest
benefit. With the present prospects we may calcu-
late on something like an average crop, although
harvest will not be general before the first week of
September.—Scotsman.
All our accounts are satisfactory in the highest
degree, in regard to the potato as well as the cereal
crops.—Dublin Evening Post.
The different varieties of crops throughout our dis-
trict are looking exceedingly well, with the exception
of turnips, which have suffered a little from the
ravages of the fly. The beetroot crop throughout
the Queen's County still promises a good return. The
following paragraph from the Advocate may prove
interesting to our readers :—" We have been in-
formed that in addition to the arrangements for the
manufacture of sugar in the Queen's County, which
are now in active progress, the directors of the Irish
Beet Sugar Company have determined on the erec-
tion of a large factory in the vicinity of this city,
adapted for the manufacture of sugar from cut and
dried, as well as raw roots, and calculated to serve
in every way as a model establishment, on the
plan of which future factories are to be erected
throughout the country. The necessary plans of
this metropolitan factory are now in course of pre-
paration, and we believe that they may shortly be
seen at thei company's offices in London and Dublin."
The crop of sugar beet in the Queen's County and
elsewhere, so far as we have any intelligence, has a
promising appearance, and has, up to the present time,
made more rapid progress than the common mangel
wurzel, affording a promise of an abundant return to
the farmer. The manufacture of the necessary ma-
chinery being now in hands, under an engagement
that the whole shall be completed and ready for work
by the let of November, we shall, in the course of a
few months, have a supply of indigenous sugar in
our markets, end the doubts which have hitherto been
so industriously circulated on this subject will be set
at rest.—Leinster Express.

How TREY MALE THE LONDON MILK. the
named
Thames Police Court, on Monday, in the ctasewohli
James Barry, milkman, 13, Plough-street, his milkmaid, he
at
man
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was charged with assaulting
Jane
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her because she put three
said in defence that he struck
pints of water into the milk. C'z'- in ? complainant—No
Complement—lle told me to.
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Mr. Yardley—Who put the chalklike liquorice-ball in it.
one, sir. They put somethingii ..
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put water in the milk
to crib it.
(Loud e
told me to laughter). It's not likely
d 0 so
because his old woman was
Il
put too much. Mr. Yardley—Bow
asleep. Defendant—She
I Defendant—l don't know ; that's
much ought she to }km.
, She went putting three half-pints of
my old woman't!. `.squ-ii the people and " adultify '' the " new
water in to !.I,airr:'iley_ivitv, do von mean to say you never
milk."
; l‘PinDefendant—Oli no ; I can't say that. Defend-
ant'swater -t• , the doctor, sir; I'm the doctor.-o,ouil wife—fin
laughter.) ' dl . " ?dr. lar e) —I ou may think it is a joke ; but
great fraud. It is as bad as stealing. 1 have hoard
it is a
quite enough
~ or seven days' itn-
went. The defendant ultimately paid the money.
.prison
THUGGEE IN LONDON.—We have received a letter
requesting us to state that there is no foundation for the as-
sertion that the prisoners charged with robbing and " thug-
ging" Mr. Day " hail just left the Mercer's Arms public-house
at the time the outrage was committed." We are assured by
the writer of this letter, "that neither of the men were in
the house that night, and that it is not frequented by persons
of such character."