The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-11 00:00:00

THE HARVEST

OswEsTriv;--The late genial weather has enabled the far-
mers on the Welch frontier to make great progress. A great
bieadth of barley' and oats have been brought under the
scythe, and has fallen heavily. -In a few days, should it con-
tinue, wheat will be ready; and notwithstanding the many
speculative reports, every prospect is against that approach
of famine which these good Christians would have made us
believe was so near.
La vi land in our neighbourhood has been cleared
of wheat, oats, and barley, and the harvest may be said tube
generally finished and the crops housed in excellent con-
dition. The green crops have not advanced much during the
past fine weather, but the showers of Thursday hare refresh-
ed them. The second crop of clover was short, but it has
been stacked in a good state.
NEWHAVEN, SEPT. 6—The harvest in this neighbourhood
is now nearly. finished ; the last load of 111 r. W. Elphick was
paraded through the town, with the horses gaily decorated
with flowers, bells, &c., having a grotesque figure, with a
mask on its face and otherwise fancifully dressed, on the
back of each. The waggon was full of men and boys singing
the harvest home. We are glad to say it has been all gut up

in capital order.
LYNN, SEPT. 6. —The late fine weather has occasioned the
harvest thereabouts to proceed most rapidly. In the upland
districts must of the wheat is carried in very fine order, and
the barley harvest is proceeding at a rapid rate. The barley
crop is better than it has been for many preceding years, and
the straw or stover, will make excellent strawyard provender
for the winter season. The clover and other artificial grasses
amongst the barley are very luxuriant, and what has already
been carried is in such fine order, that the stover will be as
good as some middling hay. The Turnips are exceedingly
fine, but some fields begin to exhibit symptoms of want of
rain. Much new wheat was exhibited in our corn market, on
Tuesday, and many samples were in very good condition.
Such another week as the last will effectually cheat the
specUlators, and set the wheat harvest free from all danger.
One-half of the crop, it is calculated, is safely housed, and a
week or ten days more of the late brilliant weather will do
the same for the most backward parts of the kingdom. There-
fore, alter all the murmurs and melancholy anticipations with
which a tribe of interested croakers inundated the country,
the present harvest will, thanks to a bounteous Providence,
turn out, upon the whole, to be one of the most abundant ever
known; for though there may have been partial failures of
the wheat crop in some few districts, those of barley, oats,
beans, peas, and potatoes are so large as to compensate in a
tenfold degree for any partial deficiency in the first-named
article.—Stockport Advertiser.
The alarm which but recently existed throughout the king-
`dorn, on the prospect of a bad harvest, has now, by the blessing
of Divine Providence, been in a great degree, it not alto-
gether, happily removed, by a continuance of fine weather
for many days, which has no doubt already been the means
of many thousands of acres being reaped, and saved in ex-
cellent condition. It will have the effect, too, we sincerely
hope, of frustrating the plots in which the schemers and job-
bers in corn speculations were emmersed, for repealing the
corn-laws, with the disgraceful intention of reaping to them-
selves a profitable harvest on the misery of their fellow-creat-
ures.—North Devon Advertiser.

In this neighbourhood (Devon), we are happy—to say,.
great progress has been made, and the crops, generally, are
much better than was expected. From Southmolton we
have similar accounts. In the vicinity of Bideford, also, it
is expected the crops will be secured in fine condition, if we
have not, within ten days, a return of wet weather. The
harvest in and around Dartmouth, and the river Dart, is most
housed, and in a few days the whole will be secured in as

good a state as could be Wished for by any person ; the crop
is also considered to be rather beyond an average. —lbid.
Flom the very commencement of the harvest the work has
been going almost without the smallest interruption. In one
or two instances a moderate quantity of rain has fallen; and
it may have been necessary to exchange the reaping hook for
the scythe, and transfer the labourers from the wheat field to
the mowing of barley; in no other sense are we aware that
any time has been lust or any delay occasioned from any
cause whatever. Consequently the harvesting of wheat is
nearly concluded, and a tolerably accurate judgment may be
formed of the condition of the crop. In conformity with our
hitherto avowed opinion, we have the satisfaction of being
still more thoroughly convinced that in Norfolk wheat is not
a deficient crop. Those which have been complained of as
wanting plant are still defective, not only in bulk, but pro-
bably in the quality of the grain also; notwithstanding which,
those wheats which had a full plant, are so remarkably good,
that, taken as a whole, we believe the produce will be found
nearly equal to that of the last two years. Throughout the
summer it has generally been believed that barley was much
the, better crop of the two. Now it appears to be univer-
sally admitted that the fact is otherwise. Many of the
barleys (but more especially those grown upon wheat stub-
bles) are thin upon the laud, and of very indifferent quality.
We know in some instances where the acreable produce of
wheat, in the present harvest has amouuted to nearly aid
quarters, and upon equally good land we have seen barley
that will not come up to five quarters per acre. It must be
admitted, on the other hand however, that a large portion
of the barley crop of this year is of very superior quality and
a very ample produce; in short, that taken one w►th another,
there is no reason to complain of any, whether of wheat,
barley, oats, peas, or beans. The three very fine days at the
beginning of this week were most propitious for the termina-
tion of the harvest; and the copious rain of Thursday last
has been most refreshing for the turnips and second crops of
clover.—Norfolk Chi ankle.
The weather continued most favourable in this part of the
world for the ;getting-in of the harvest up to last evening,
when we were visited by heavy showers of rain and a thun-
der storm. The atmosphere had previously been very op-
pressive, and some days this week have been the warmest of
the summer. Most of the wheats have been got in; but they
do not realise in quantity the general expectation, and: the
anxiety of the farmers to avail themselves of the present fa-
vourable state of the markets has caused much to be offered
for sale which is yet damp. Buyers, however, are very thy,