TIIE HARVEST.
The accounts of the harvest are more encouraging than those we have lately had to lay before the reader. Time following extracts are from Country newspupers received during the week.
NORTIMITIERLAND.—The weather during the past week has been remark-
ably fine, and the corn-harvest has proceeded with groat briskness. A greet breadth of wheat has been cut, and considerable quantities secured; elle it is satisfactory to find, that the opinion we had formed last week, from the accounts then received of the favourable state of the crops, has been fully confirmed by subsequent information. The injury sustained by the recent
rains ivill be comparatively trilling ; and the crops arc everywhere in this dis- trict considered to be a fair average, and in favourable situations almadant Another fortnight of fine weather will enable the bulk of the graiu to be gathered in good condition. Potatoes are said to be everywhere abundant, sad excellent in quelity.—Neawastle Journal.
Dunitest.—Good progress has been made in the harvest this week. Except in late situations, reapers are busy in every quarter. The crops, as teas always anticipated, are abundant. The universal report is, that there never was a more bountiful harvest, as far as quantity is concerned. But we regret to add, that the quality of the grain has been materially deterioreted by the recent unfiteourable weather. 'We are informed by persons whose connexion with
agricultural pursuits enables there to form a correct judgtnent, and on whose statements we can entirely rely, that this is the case to a very great extent, particularly with the heavier crops; and we know a farmer who has this year grown Gee hundred acres of wheat, who says he has not a suund ear of corn on his premises. We are no croakers or alarmists, but it is right that the public should know the true state of the case.—Dothcon, Chronicle. CUMBEHLAND.—With the eXeepti011 of occasional showers, we have this week been favoured with tine harvedt-weathcr, and a considerable quantity of all kinds of grain has been well housed.—Curlisle Journal. YORKSIIIRE.—Tho harvest operations in the neighbourhood of Doncaster have within the lust few days proceeded with the utmost degree of rapidtty.
The fitemers have taken advantage of the prevalence of fine days, and brought
their whole force into time field for the paafaiSa of leading the corn, which could not be moved in consequence of flue rain which had previously fallen, and SeeUrillg the produce either in the stfteh or the letrn. Mtteh incessant !aheutr has kot employed on thid ecettsion, and many sticks have been reared nut few eoudition. In aome situations injury has been sustained by the late floods. The higher soils, however, have been nearly cleared of every description; and certainly, on the whole, the weather has been more favourable in this than in many other parts of the kingdom.—Doneaster Gazette. The harvest in the neighbourhood of Richmond is progressing rapidly. 'We bare had some fine days of settled weather, and if it continue during the week, a great part of the wheat will be secured. There were many remarkably fine Samples of new wheat shown on Saturday, which, from the ,gloomy appearance Oda! weather on that day, brought high prices. One sample, from the neigh- bourhood of Stockton, which was of extraordinary excellence, sold at lls. Od. per bushel—York Herald. In all places—even amid the mountain recesses of the North, and on the cold clay lands—the grain is fit for the sickle ; and we are warranted in saying, to use a country phrase,) that " the neck of the harvest is broken " even in thelatest districts. With regard to the crop, all the authentic accounts we receive lead us to the conclusion we came to last week, namely, that the pro- duce will fan below an average, aud that the quality is defective to a large extent. —Leeds Intelligencer.
LANCASIIIRE.—The weather was beautifully fine the early part of the week, and a good deal of grain was saved. We rejoice to be enabled to state, that in respect of oats and barley, the grain has not only received no injury, but that it is particularly good in all respects. The wheat, of course, must have suffered, but not so greatly, we hope, as supposed. Much rain has fidlen within the past three or four days, and there is still a good deal of grain out around us.—Lancaster Gazette.
The farmers had previously actively exerted themselves in housing the out grain ; and in this part of the country we may state that the whole is secured, arid, what is better, for the most part in good condition. The quantity of after-grass is also great. We have reason, too' to believe that the crops the North will not turn out so short, or in such deteriorated condition as some of our contemporaries would fam write themselves into the belief of. But it is not unusual for these who have samples of new wheat coming into market, or who have previous stocke on hand, to present the gloomiest side of the picture, with a view to maintain very high prices as long as they eels The appearance of the late potato crops is excellent, and they will be heavy. The early crops are larger, and generally tine.—Lieeepool Standard. Inn or Max.—Great erogress has been made in securing the crops through- out the island; and there is every reason to believe that, notwithstanding the excessive fall of rain which has lately taken place, by liir the greater portion of the corn will be got in with comparatively little damages—Manx Liberal. THE Pownnens.—The weather has been delightfully fine in this neigh- bourhood during the last week ; which has enabled those whose corn has long been exposed to the late inclement weather to gather it in, without, we bear, sustaining any considerable daninge.—Stoprd Gazette. IIEREFORDSIIIRE.—For many weeks past we have scarcely had two fine days in succession, and the continued heavy rains have produced much mischief: There is still a good deal of barley out which will not pay for carrying, and the entire crop is considered to be of inferior (polity. Much clover is also spoiled. The weather this week is on the whole brighter ; but twenty-four hours of dry weather appears an impossibility. The accounts from every part of the king- dom are gloomy.—Herr/bed Rtprmer. CORN\VALI..—The barley in many ;daces, we understand, is injured by the long continuance of wet ; but, generally speaking, not so much as might have been expected.—West Briton. KENT.—We have this week had an opportunity of passing through many of the coin-fields in the neighbourhood of Dover, but the sight is truly appalling. Several fields of very fine oats have been entirely spoiled by the wet and wind, as not the least vestige of a grain of corn can be seen on the straw. The crop is, therefore, of no use but to the straw-yard. The barley also, from its lung continuance on the ground, is very much speared, and consequently .greatly deteriorated in value. A large quantity of wheat yet remains unearned, and . we have seen several fields uncut ; and the wheat appears very green and unfit for the sickle.—Greenwich Gazette.
IEELAND.—The accounts from the provinces which have reached us since Friday are generally favourable, particularly those from the counties of Meath, Westmeath, Antrim, Louth, and Down. Complaints still prevail as to the trying weather, from Limerick, Derry, and Donegal. Connaught, with the exception of Sligo, seems to have been this year peculiarly exempted from the bad effects of the heavy rains which fell during the last two months. The oat crop in Galway will, we learn, be abundant.—Dublia Evening Mail. The weather has been most variable this week ; occasional glimpses of sun- shine, but clouds and rain predominated. To the husbandman it has proved a most trying season.—Liweeich Chronicle. It is eenerally supposed that the harvest will not yield, on an average, more than half a crop.—Iseren Post.
SCOTLAND.—The weather in Aberdeenshire has been very changeable this week, but, upon the whole, favourable for the harvest. The state of the crops is, however, very precarious, and much anxiety prevails throughout the country, the season being now so late. We have received some additional ac- counts of the damage done by the flood on Sunday week; they are not of any importance.—Aberdeen Herald.
Since our last, the weather, on the whole, has been very unsettled, and the most grievous accounts reach us respecting the state of the crops; wheat, in not a few instances, sprouting to the length of a couple of inches ; barley in a somewhat similar state ; oats shaken, in some cases, to the extent of two or three " seeds." There can be no question that the grain-crops have been irre- parably- damaged by the continued rains which have prevailed of late, and that the returns must, therefore, be sadly defective. The weather still continues unsteady.—rerth Chronicle, Oct. 3. Since Saturday last, the rain has ceased falling, and the weather in Perth- shire continues, since that period, the most propitious fir the farmer that his heart could desire. In Strathsay, Appin, rind Portineria, harvest is rapidly ad- vancing; and Omuta this fine weather continue a fortnight longer, all will be Cut, and the greater part be got safely in the stack. Potatoes, the poor man's friend, are likely to be an abundant crop. In short, the views of the farmer in this respect are highly cheering, should the present flue weather continue until all is sutra—Perth Paper. The weather, upon the whole, since our last publication, may be estimated at a fair harvest average. From Friday afternoon up to Tuesday evening the weather may be characterized as excellent, and telling decidedly on our fields and stackyards. The quantity of corn cut and secured during these seven days is quite astonishing.—Fife herald.
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