1799-] Agriculture, Sc: I43

not abundant:-- The. paſture-ground were injured by the wetneſs: The reap- ing even of the early oats had been little more than begun.

Sept. 5.‘The value of the fruit, this year, produced in the orchards on the banks of the Clyde, between Bothwell and Lane rk, is calculated at 40001. ſterling.

Sept. 10, Wheat has begun to. be cut down in the neighbourhood,„new gats has been already expoſed to ſale in the market, of the Haddington.

Sept. 13. The wheat, barley, and oats are, now, in general vez the ſickle in the neighbourhood-of Edinburgh, Glaſgow, and ICRLUtO LEBE labour of the harveſt is rapidly advancing.

Sept. 14. In the courſe of theſe laſt eight days, the reaping of the crops of grain has generally commenced throughout CUMBERLAND. MA great part of tbe barley has been already dried and put up.‘The bay bas been, in ge=- neral, brought into- the ſtack. The ears of the wheat are unuſually light.

Sept. 20. In the lower part of SOMERSETSHIRL,--the weather of the harveſt, has been experienced not unfavourable;¡—the wheat is entirely reaped, and gathered in;—in-quantity and excellence, it exceeds the expeêtations of the farmers;—and there is a very abundant crop of good apples.

The Royal Academy of Sciences at Copenhagen, oered, laſt year, one prize for the invention of any machine which fhould be the moſt uſeful of all that were preſented for the purpoſes of agriculture, manufacture, or mining; and another prize for the beſt harneſs, for yoking horſes in ploughs or carriages.

Baron HIERTA in the neighbourhood of Sodor-Telia, in Swêden has recently invented a threſhing-machine, which is moved by water, and with which eight or ten perſons may clear fram the raw, x5 or 16 tous of grain, in the courſe of one day.

The THRESHING machinehas been alſo introduced into Sweden, by Mr. Szve- denheim at Bangſta, and Mr. ZLowez at Bergaholm.

Mr. AcHaRDP of Berlin, has lately communicated to the Royal Academy of that city, an account of a ſeries of curious experiments on the influence of the preſſure‘of the atmoſphere on the germination of plants. The ſame academy have offered prizes for the beſt Eſſays-—on the aft ſuitable ſubſtitute far dung, as a mañure,—and on the extraction of an oil from grains or ſeeds, which fhall ſerve as the beſt ſubſtitute far oil of olives.

Natural Phoenamena.

A cat belonging to Dr. Coventry, profeſſor of agriculture, in the Univerßity of Edinburgh, loft its tail, when it was young, by an accident. Ithas, ſince, brought forth many littters of Kittens. In every litter, one or more of the kittens has wanted the tail, either in whole or in part.

A veſſel lately arrived at Liverpool,—having on board, two living Croco- diles; one, five fet in length, the other, ix. The largeſt dying within a week after it was brought aſhore, has been diſſe&ted by two ſurgeons, and found to have in its ſtomach, a quantity of glaſs, which muſt have been the cauſe of its death.

In ſome late experiments on the NERVES, Mr. Reil of Halle,—by pouring nitric acid, copiouſly, upon an aſſemblage of nerves, with the cellular ſub- ſtance, in which they were contained,—accompliſhed firſt, the diſiolution of the cellular ſubſtance,—and then the ſeparation of the congealed nervous fluid; in conſequence of which, he obtained the fine filamentous tubes of the nerves, more entirely írée, than they uſually are in experiments—from all other matter, that might hinder the agcúrate examination of them.

From the Catalogue of the plants in the, Royal Garden of Herrenhauſen, in Hanover, it appears,‘that they amount, very nearly, to three thouſand diferent ſpecies, oí which a number have been received, as preſents from Kew.

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