The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-01 00:00:00

MONTHLY AGRICULTURdt REPORT.

The barn floor having been in extensive use since our
last, the crops may he spoken of, both in respect to qua-
lity and bulk, with considerably greater certainty. Few
samples, indeed, of the new wheats have proved tit for
the miller's use, being generally, the best of them. cold
in hand and soft, and wanting many months sweating in
the stack. The ordinary mildewed, smutted, and grown
samples are unsaleable, as unlit for the speculator's per-
pose, and there seems scarcely any other to which they
can be applied, but pig-feeding. Barley is not, in every
district; a large crop, and where it is so, it is almost all
stained by moisture, or shrivelled and discoloured by
blight. Oats, a middling crop, have perhaps escaped
best. Beaus and Pease are great crops, but partially
blacked and even rotted. Turnips cover the 'awl com-
pletely, hut perhaps generally run too mach to foliage,
to be heavy anal productive in the bulb. Grass is in vast
plenty, and good in the uplands; hut must necessarily
be very washy and weak, in flooded lowlands, and by no
means sate for sheep; indeed should the autumn prove
rainy throughout, a rot in the sheep may he dreaded.
Tares, though not a great crop, have had a great fall in
price. Samples of hops having colour, sell readily, as
being scarce. The Spanish (Talavera) wheat, the na-
tive of a more favourable clime, as might well be ex-
pected, from not being yet naturalized to our fickle sea-
sons, has in the present succeeded worst of all ; our white
wheats, as most delicate, the next. It is well worth the
firmer's while to calculate this year. how much be has'
lost by growing clover with his corn. perhaps a disad-
vantageous practice in any season. The vast plenty of '
food for cattle, sheep, and pigs, both of vegetables and
damaged corn, have produced some spirit in the fairs
and markets ; and the accounts from the great fair of
are said to be exhilirating ; there is, however,
a great want of the means of purchase among tile farmers
generally. Provisions may yet decline considerably
further in value, thong's the bad state of the wheat crop
may keep the price of bread somewhat steady. Pigs are
said to be more plentiful and cheap than for many years;
probably oar breeders are beginning to set their faces
against the. Irish supply. It seems to be generally agreed,
that the past has been one of the worst seasons, anal the
late harvest the very worst within memory. Yet, as has
ever been the laudable custom of certain new writers,
most flourishing and soothing accounts are constantly
given to the public, of abundant and beautiful crops. A
few fortunate growers, indeed, in Some of the earliest dis-
tricts, have harvested their wheat early, and incondition
and quantity nearly equal to the famous crop of last year :
and fortunate Scotland for the most part, has done so,
and even seeded their fellows at the earliest period. The
hopes of the farmers of obtaining any relief through
the medium of the Agricultural Associations, grow daily
more faint, and with great reason. The first proposal
watt indeed obviously delusive, the last absolutely ab-
surd. The situation of the farmers, it gannet he denied,
is mast deplorable, and both far their sakes sad of the
public at large. a real sod 'active remedy for this us.'
tiosal disease should be pat is force with all possible
speed. la the masa tkpo, it behoves the farmer to
probe, tbst they may discover the (Hightail cause of their
sulavilies- They will Sad that all this desolation has
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fathers or themselves; and that the first step Nth'
lief is, the ecinviction of that truth ; the nett
to
Sin in the addption of t: qtly patriotic minciplts • 4.
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proceeding..—!Middlesex, Oct. 24, 1821.

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to the same objection as the article at which et.
—its large and disproportional dimensions.

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. LONDON:
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 1, 18,11.

STOCK EXCILINGE. TWELVE O'CLOtt
The Bank is closed to-day, but the S4.ek Step
remains open, in consequence of to-morrow beitt4
day to take and cleliver Stock. The Bulls eat
are tugging at each other. The Jews being gi4
and haring a very large amount of Stock to deli
the consequence is, the Bears are giving thew the
ternal hug, by lowering. the Consols, allieh
done this morning at 774