The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-10-23 00:00:00

AGRICULTURAL PROSPECTS. PARTICI:LIMO
OF I RELAND,

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Wheat is one-third, as nearly as can be computed, wader
an average crops the quality is, gesetally speaking, mg
good, owing to the long contingence of the ted, and lie
early app of the frost. Ireland has suffered meld
in respect to genie, than England. We have been told
that the wheat harvest in Scotland has not been nearly sp
good as last year.
Barley, is, perhaps, an average crop IS Ireland; iu
England we are informed, it Is considerably beyond an
average.
Osys, which may be said to have failed in Ireland last
year, is this year considerably beyond an average crop.—
We make the assertion quite advisedly. We bare convened
with agricultural persons from almost every part of the
country, and they all agree in saying, that there is at least
double the quantity of Oats saved this year beyond the
lest. Isamu. counties, Meath, for instance, the proportion
has been four or five to one. The ivality too, Is excellent—
quite es goad as the famous crop in 1814. Now, in Eng-
land, we are informed, that the average of this crop is ra-
ther short—if this he the ease, those lands which have
grown this grain, will (in the present estimation of the
word) nearly remunerate the farmer for his toll, and enable
him to give some kind of a per centageoa Lis rent.
Hay in Ireland is, generally speaking, good, In Eng-
land we understand, there has been a very great failure.
,We wish we could say the same of Potatoes. Notwith-
standing their latenes., they promise to be abundant—and
even at present the price is moderate. Bit we regret to
add, that the accounts from the interior, particularly from
the %Vest of Ireland, are by no means, such as we could
wish. The frosts have act in early, and great iejery, if they__
continue, will infallibly he done to these new in tbe ground.
From the West of Gilkey, we hear theriis almost a total
failure, and at this moment Potatoes in Mayo are 4ed. to sd.
a stone, a circumstsnce unparalleled at this early period,
even in the hard year, and in several of the more mountain-
ous districts ot the county Clare, the seat and centre of the
famine in 1822—the poor are already suffering severely.
Lomplaints are also coming from the Midland Counties,
but as the Dublin Markets have not, as vet, been influenced
by them, .tve are willing to hope that the apprehensions of
our correspondents are rather exaggerated.
The fair of Itallinaslor which has just terminated en
ahles us to speak pretty decisively as to the privileges of
the store and grazing farmers. taking the inferior with
the good, obeli have advanced about 31. 10s., or 41. a score,
or, from 17. to 20 per cent. above the price of last year,
while black cattle have been reduced from 10 to 15 below
the prices which they brought thdpreceding year.
Pigs are a little on the advance--though by the last ad-
vices from London we learn that Bacon within four months
has f illen full 40 per cent. Perhaps this may be an 'eav-
es -ation—say. therefore 30—and we may canclufle, that if
some great impulse be not given to tie market. we say, we
shall have Pork as well as Beef and Mutton, as cheap the
approaching Christina. tas they were last.
(lie genetal conclusion, therefore, from these premises
appears to be—that Corn, Cattle, and of course Bread and
Meat, will he cheap this year as they were last. The present
harvest has nut yet come into fair play,