The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

',;.•"-A: P"
THE HARVEST-THE WITHER
OXFORD, SEPT. 20.—The harvest is nearly over- in
neighbourhood, and the corn generally has bqpkjg.lfPlT#.4lLail,
pretty good condition; and luckily it is so, forlTirciElit er
since Saturday last has been very unfavourable, heavy rains
having fallen, with little intervals of sunshine. 'ibis has
proved a great check to the getting in the beans, and the
remainder of the oats. The clover has been got up in capital
order, and being beyond an average crop, will add very con-
siderably to the stbck of hay; and the fodder and grass being
plentiful, there will be plenty of hay next winter to supply
the markets. The wheat crop is quite an average one, though
the corn-dealers say the sample will not be so fine, or the
quality so good as last year, when the yield was most ex.
cellent. The barley crop has far exceeded that of
several years past, and is allowed on all hands to be far
above the average. The same may, in many districts, be
said of oats; they are well up in quantity, and the quality
will be good. Beans and Peas are also plentiful. Turnips
are very plentiful, but if the wet weather continue, great
fears will be entertained for the preservation of them,
many farmers being fearful that they shall be unable
to keep them from getting mouldy. Mangel-wurzel,
of which large quantities are grown in this county,
looks remarkably strong and healthy, and is not in the least
affected. Carrots, of which also large quantities are grown,
have not at present been touched with the disease which, we
are sorry to say, is so prevalent mid destructive to the potato
crops. Many fields of potatoes that were but slightly
touched a week or two ago are now scarce worth the trouble
of digging up. In several cases where they have been taken
up it has been found that those which were healthy at first
have become diseased after they have been out of the ground
a few days, and although carefully picked apart at first, an-
other less has taken place on looking over them again.—
Corn Market : old wheat fetched to-day from 141. to 14/.,
with plenty of buyers ; new, from 111. to 12/. 10s. ; barley,
235. to 345. ; oats were at least 2s. per quarter higher; beans
sold at 12/. and 13/. ; peas varied from 9/. to 11/. The wheat
trade, owing to the presence of several speculators from the
metropolitan and other counties, was unusually brisk; no
sooner was a sample shown than it was eagerly purchased.
The millers and bakers in consequence of the rise in wheat
clapped 3s. per sack on flour, so that there is every prospect of
the loaf bring still much dearer.
STIRUNGSIIIRE.—we have had another week of good har-
vest weather, making now twenty-three days, all of which
have been good working-days, with the exception of Saturday
last, which was mostly wet throughout, and therefore no-
thing was done in the fields. The present will be a bread
year, come of the potatoes what will; it will also be a turnip
year, which will produce beef and mutton; and these with
bread in galore, whether wheaten, oaten, or barley, make
capital cheer. Rain began to fall again yesterday at mid-
day, and continued very constant and heavy till six o'clock
in the evening, and is still threatening —Stirling Observer.
AYRSIIIRE.—The weather, which has for some time past
been everything the husbandman could desire, broke on
Saturday last, and since then we have had frequent showers,
some of them pretty heavy, though not of long continuance.
We still receive from our correspondents throughout the
county accounts of the further spread of the potato blight,
and likewise of the general progress of harvest operations.
We understand that Professor Johnson has been in Ayrshire,
endeavouring to trace the course and extent Of this distress-
ing occurrence, and of course his report will be anxiously
looked for.—Ayr Advertiser.

A correspondent, who is a practical agriculturist of consi-
derable skill and experience, has taken exception to a re-
mark made by us last week. He says that for one farmer
who !has been dilatory in getting in his wheat, there are
twenty who have been in much too great a hurry about that
important operation—that the consequence is that a large
quantity of wheat has been got together in a premature state,
whereby loss in quantity and inferiority in quality will be ex-
perienced at threshing time--and he further informs us that
the advice which has been given to farmers at agricultural
meetings, and by writers in agricultural publications, namely,
to commerro reaping before the wheat crop is fully ripe, is
erroneous and mischievous. We are sorry, also, to be in-
formed from the same authority that our anticipations of the
result of the present year's produce have been expressed too
favourably—the ears of corn are, he states, to a great extent
very defective, and will by no means realise the promise
which they hold forth to the eye of a 'superficial examiner.
The injury to the potato crop is likewise spoken of as wide-
spread and serious, and it is also stated that unmistakeable
indications of a kindred disease, no doubt produced by mois-
ture and a low temperature, are exhibiting themselve in the
other root crops. Swedes, mange!, carrots, &c., which gave a
promise of wholly unparalleled abundance, and of extraordi-
nary fine quality, are now stated to show symptoms of rot,
and it is feared that they will be much deteriorated as food
for stock, and will not store well. The inference from all this
is, that prices of the necessities of life, for man and beast,
during the ensuing year, will be much higher than was anti-
cipated. All this is opposed to the information which had
previously reached us. We lay this, our "latest intelligence
from the rural districts," before our readers, with the earnest
hope that it:may be less true than we fear it to be.—Gloucester
Journal.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—Your correspondent from Exeter, in his anxiety to
serve his own• views about the two Exmouth lines, omits to
mention that the share in one line is 10/.105., and in the other
251, so that Daw's line at ss. premium is equal to Head's at
12s. 6d. There was a report that Head's line was taken up
by the South Devon Railway Company, and that gave th:an
a temporal), rise. Daw's line sold freely in London the same
week at lts., and they have since reached 255. premium in
Manchester.—Yours,
Exeter, Sept. 24, 1845.

EXONIAN.