The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-16 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND CROPS.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE.—The harvest in this county is nearly
nought to a conclusion; there is here and there a piece of

but most of the corn has been got in in fine
condition. The stack-yards are not so well filled as we have
seen them. The yield is not great, but the quality is good.
The late fine rains have done much good to the pastures, and
also the turnip crops, both of which have improved greatly
these last six or seven days. There is now but little com-
plaints of any shortness of keeping, and stock are doing well.
Prices continue very low. The fallows are in fine condition.
The weather has been favourable for them throughout the
season.

to carry,

.NonFor.x.—We have now arrived at the full conclusion of
the harvest (with the exception only that the crop of beans
is still standing,) and perhaps no period can be referred to,
within the memory of the present generation, in which grain
of every description had been secured in such fine condition
as that to which our observations are directed. with regard
to the crop of wheat, as far as quality is concerned, there can
be but one
good. °Pinion—namely, that the sample is superlative

HADDENRAId.--
The harvest about here is getting nearly
mpleted, and generally is well got together and in very
od condition. has been very showery this last week.
e had a very hears' thunder shower last Wednesday night,
t have not heard of it doing any damage.
-EwMARKET.—The harvest in this neighbourhood is quite
hed, and the plough is kept actively employed. We un-
and that one farmer in this town has thrashed since
4 upwards of 1,400 combs of wheat. Not amiss, we

this; for one

,SIIIAE.—The weather d •
tnt—damp and close
eeK nas been unfavourable for harvesting_ the most of last
to-day (Friday)
very apt to cause the sheaves.to grow
As cleared it, and may continue so,'altr
"harvest home,"
.:31'Igh it is watery
hasxthers only
Several farmers have had their
as good as the Nveathera: been, the
e cheer was
.ests would no doubt ne highly entertained
:quire one or two dry days to follow the same
eally the farmyards are well filled in this neighbourhoodtn and
above an average. We may confidently say cutting i
than three-fourths accomplished ; another week of good
more
w
ther would finish this branch of husbandry. Our Nithsdear
correspondent says, " that with them the cutting is nearly
over about Thornhill, farther down, and even into Annan.
dale." We learn from another correspondent that their
crops were all cut last week, and ere this we believe they will
have had a " rantin' kirn" to comfort and cheer them after
their severe labour.—Glaxgow Chronicle.
EARLY HARYEST.—On Saturday last, the 10th instant.
there
were in the Corn Exchange, Newcastle, 183 samples of
wheat, 176 of which were of this year's crop, the quality very
fine.—Tyne Mercury.

RENFRES

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The herring-fishing this season in Lochfine has been very
successful. The take has not been quite so great as has oc-
casionally been drawn in the same waters, but any deficiency
in quantity has been amply counterbalanced by the quality of
of the fish, which is excellent. The salters are making ready
purchases, and giving good prices, and the fishermen are in
high spirits. Tarbert, which is the chief station on the loch,
presents every morning a very lively scene, and one of con-
siderable novelty and interest to the stranger. The harvest
is making progress on the banks of the loch, and in general
throughout Argyleshire. There is now a cheering prospect
of a plentiful and cheap supply of the very best potatoes and
herrings, which form the staple diet of a large portion of the
poorer classes.—Glavoto Argus.