The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

YORKSHIRE.—The weather during the past week has
been somewhat more favourable to the growing crops.
Monday was exceedingly hot, and but for a light breeze
the heat would have been almost insupportable. On
Tuesday evening there were about two hours light rain,
but not sufficient to do more than moisten the surface.
On Wednesday there was a fine shower in the afternoon,
which was followed by more rain during the night, and
whilst we are writing there is every prospect of more.
The turnips have derived great advantage, as well as the
grain crops generally. The remarks which we made last,
and the previous week, still apply. On the clays, the
long continued drought has materially injured the wheats,
and, however, favourable the weather may be up to bar.
vest, it can never restore them to the promising state they
were in before the drought set in. On the sands and
loamy soils, however, the wheats look remarkably well.
The ears are bold and well filled, and just sufficiently rank
to ensure a large crop without deterioration of quality.
The early sown barleys are fast attaining maturity.
Beans at present are in a very healthy state, and promise
an abundant crop. Potatoes are also looking well, and
up to the present period we hear very little of the potato
disease.—Doncaster Chronicle. _ _

NORFOLK.—TiIe near approach to the harvest enables
us to make a rough estimate of the condition of the crops
of gra n and pulse. Relative to the wheat crops, there
seems to be diversify of opinion ; for ourselves, we think
the general appearance betokens a full average produce ;
but we know there are many large growers who do nst
entertain so favourable an opinion. They say the ears
are short, and the leaf broad and lusty, a circumstance
importing to the crop an off-hand appearance of produc-
tiveness, which a closer examination does not confirm.
Barley and oats are looking well upon all mixed soil lands,
even including those of a sandy description ; but in wet
bottoms, and on stiff clayey lands, the present appear-
ance betokens anything rather than a full yield of grain
or handsome sample. The same may be said of pulse in
general, especially upon newly broken-up and reclaimed
peaty soils, which having been partially inundated after
the crops were planted, whether with pulse or grain, will
yield no return during the present year, since even now
the land is to poachy too be made available for any other
purpose. —Norfolk Chronicle.
LYNN.-Our correspondent states that in the impor-
tant district of West Norfolk, the crops are looking
remarkably well, and give promise of an abundant har-
vest. Harvest operations will soon commence in that
neighbourhood.

SUSSEX.—There has been a vast improvement in the
wheat crop in the Weald during the week. The straw
had shot un surprisingly, and is standing well, while the
ears have been enlarged and the bloom has set, and the
ears are filling well. Notwithstanding that many pieces
are thin, there is every prospect of a good average crop.
There is some talk of smut and red rust, but not to a
great extent. Barley has improved, and is in full ear ; it
is thin in places, and the crop, although uneven, cannot
be called a poor one at present. Of some parts of East
Surrey we do not hear so good a report ; but in the
Weald there is not much fault to find, nor is there upon
the Downs. Oats are short in the Weald, and, with some
few splendid exceptions, do not promise well. Peas are
well set, and the pods generally well filled, with little
maggot in them. Beans are short in haulm, and not
much is expected from them ; but they have improved
lately. The second crop of clover requires rain, as also
do the turnips, which, although a good plant generally,
grow slowly and are backward. Potatoes, although there
is a blight among the early ones, do not show much out-
ward signs of the disease as yet ; and the backward plants
look healthy enough.—Briyhton Chronicle.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Gentle rains and hastening
weather are the ft atures of the week. Wheats are mo-
turing kindly, feeding and bright. Barleys, late sown and
thin pieces, are improving. Beans will be forward, corn-
ing well. It is turnip year, they are doing well ; and po-
tatoes appear to be going on safely.
THE MIDLAND DISTRICTS.—It is pleasing to state, as
well from personal obrervation as from the authority of
some of the first agriculturists, that the crops in Derby.
shire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, and
Shropshire, are unusually luxuriant and promising. The
hay harvest is nearly completed, and, owing to the re-
markable fineness of the season, has been got in at a com-
paratively small expense. An abundant after-math de-
pends upon the occurrence of future rains ; but as St.
Swithin's (Sunday) passed over with only one almost im-
perceptible shower, a succession of wet, by the weather-
wise, is not expected. Barley, peas, and particularly
beans, look exceedingly well; but early-sown wheat, more
especially on high lands, is generally described as thin—
still it is thought that a more than average crop may now
with safety be anticipated. The late dry, hot weather has
seriously affected turnips—they are scarce, small, and far
from being of the first quality ; but potatoes, notwith-
standing reports to the contrary from other parts of the
country, are, in this neighbourhood, not only plentiful but
healthy. Apples promise to be abundant in Worcester-
shire.—Derby Mercury.
The wheat crops in every direction look exceedingly
well, having very generally begun, during the protracted
interval of dry weather, to assume the mellow hue of
autumn; the straw is for the most part long and the ear
plump and healthy; and for anything that can yet be
observed, the crop generally promises to be as good and
abundant as it has ever before been in the experience of
any one living. Oats are also good, but barley, we regret
to say, is extensively affected by smut both in our own
immediate neighbourhood and throughout the districts
adjoining. As to the potatoes, it seems to be admitted by
even the most speculative observers of the changes which
develope themselves at this critical period of the year,
that the crop is likely to prove as good a one as was ever
known previous to the potato disease reaching its climax.
—Oxford Herald.
. . . .

SCOTLAND.—Since last week the weather has continued
prosperous for the crops. which, under an almost tropical
heat and occasional showers, have made rapid progress.
The wheat has attained its full length—a beautiful heavy
and clean crop. Oats are everywhere in ear, and bulky ;
and the potato crop never showed better indications of an
abundant and sound yield. They are now in daily use in
almost every family. The green cut grass is generally in
rick, and that for seeding will be ripe for the scythe this
week. Turnips, mangle wurzle, and other bulbous roots,
are thriving well. Collectively, there is every reason to
expect an abundant, but not a very early, harvest of every
species of crop.—Glasyou, Paper.
IRELAND.-From ourfour provincesthe accounts continue
of the most satisfactory kind. The Cork Examiner thus
reports of the south :—" We can positively state, on the
authority of correspondents from almost all parts of the
south, that the crops are progressing as well, as the best
friends of Ireland could desire. Everything is ripening
fast, and no sign of disease or blight whatever. In some
of the country markets potatoes are selling for one half-
penny a pound."
POTATO CROP.—Without an exception, we may say,
that the crop to which universal attention is turned—the
potato—is as yet reported safe, and this may be said par-
ticularly as regards England and Ireland. It is feared
that the very severe frosts which occurred in June, in
Scotland, have injured that crop more or less ; but where
they are recovering from the severe weather (and they are
reported as " coming round again"), there is a promise
of an abundant and healthy crop from those early sown.
The reports say they " never had a fairer prospect," and
in every report we read we hear that the leaves are for the
most part broad and well-coloured. Should the present
weather continue, we shall have an early and abundant
harvest. All the cereal crops are reported as forward and
most promising, while peas and beans will, it is stated,
prove an average crop. Mark-lane Express. —The Cork
Examiner says " Since our last the most contra-
dietary accounts have been received in the city from va-
rious parts of this county and the county of Kerry as to
the state of the crop upon which such universal interest is
felt. It is very curious that different statements come
from the same place ; and that where disease is spoken of
as appearing in a locality one day, it is spoken of as having
disappeared from it in a day or two after. That disease
has appeared in a few fields, there can be no doubt ; but
it is equally positive that, as yet, the general crop is safe,
and in almost all places unusually abundant and thriving.
The general impression is, that it is so far advanced that,
supposing a blight to set in, the tuber will have been out
of the ground before such time as the disease could have
reached it."

The beautiful weather with which we have been favoured
has enabled all the operations connected with hay-harvest-
ing to be carried on unchecked. Most of it is now got in.
The crops have generally been heavy and the quality ex-
traordinary ; the suitableness of the weather has made the
expense of getting it in as little as possible.

SATURDAY, JULY 21.

PRESTON.—We have had refreshing showers during the
week, which have had a favourable influence upon the
crops generally.
MANCHESTER.—The weather has been showery and un-
settled during the greater part of the week, which has so
far proved highly beneficial to the growing crops.
TuouivEY, NEAR PETERBOROUGH.—We have had some
seasonable showers of rain during the week.
NEWCASTLE-lIPON-TYNE.—The weather during the
week has been very favourable for the growing crops.
We have had several fine showers, which have greatly im-
proved spring corn. To-day is gloomy, with a cooler at-
mosphere.
CORK.—Up to Wednesday the weather continued hot
and highly favourable for the crops ; since then it has
undergone a complete change, and the temperature has
fallen considerably ; some showers of rain have occurred
accompanied by high winds, but no apprehensions are
entertained of their having an injurious tendency. Re-
ports of an unpleasant and unfavourable character are
pretty general within the last few days, regarding certain
appearances on the potato stalks, strongly indicating a re-
newal of the disease of former years, but in a mitigated
form ;—the accounts are somewhat contradictory, and
therefore require confirmation ; sufficient, however, has
transpired, to awaken in some localities a very painful
anxiety for the ultimate safety of the crop.
WATERFORD.—The weather has got much cooler, but
no rain has fallen here beyond some passing showers.
BELFAST. —The weather, since our last, has been
changeable, and a good deal of rain has fallen during the
last two days.

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