1806] THistory. Gj

Mr. Curwen's ſheep-ſhearing took place at Harrow-flack, on Friday ſen night. It was aſcertained, by a comparative trial, that a Fell ſheep con= ſumes more than a South-Down. About eighty gentlemen dined in a tent with Mxr. Curwen:—and one hundred ſhepherds were entertained ſeparately. —Præ mia were diſtributed,—to George Wilſon who had brought up ten out of fourteen children without parochial aſſiſtance,—to John Robinſon who had been twenty-eight years a faithful ſervant in huſpandry,—to Eliza- beth Trotter who had faithfully ſerved twenty-four years.

The Dublin Society, on the 26th of June, voted to Lord Henry the mar- quis of Sligo, Lord Caher, Thomas Mé‘Carthy, eig. and a number of other gentlemen, præmea, to a Very conhiderable amount, for planting oak- trees, rearing ſeedlings from Iriſh ſeed, and other efforts to promote the gsowth of timber trees in Ireland.

On Monday, June 30, the Duke of Norfolk and the other principal no- bility and gentlemen of Herefordſhire, were preſent at the Agriculture meeting in the city of Hereford. A colt exhibited by Mr. Haghes of Marcle, was judged to be one of the fineſt ſpecimens ever ſeen for a good breed of horſes foc the team.

The only mines of antimony, in Great Britain, are at Glindinning, ten miles from Langholm, in the county of Dumiries.

Malt liquor is much uſed in Flanders. That of Louvain has the prefer= ence. Its peculiar excellence is attributed to the water it is made with, as the merit of London porter to the Thames water.

The beautiful Scottiſh marble from the Duke of Aygyle?s island of Tirey, with green ſpots like leaves‘on a roſe-coloured ground, is exceedingly admired at Paris, and may be there fold at any price. Itis harder than our common marbles.

At an average, an Irifhraan with bis wife and four children will eat 371bs. of potatoes in a day.

At the Hackneſs cattle ſhow in Yorkſhire, laſt Whit-Tueſday, a pre- miom of four guineas was awarded to Mr.Peter Taylor, of Ayton for pro- ducing the beſt two years old bull.

At a late meeting of the Society of Leominſter for the improvement of Agriculture, Edward Jones, elq. of Fawley, prefided. Various prizes for rams, heifers, boars, bulls, and cows were awarded, The cattle were judged to be the beſt ever exhibited at Leominfter.

At Sir John Lawſon’s, Brough Hall, near Richmond, Yorkſhire, was lately slaughtered an ox, of which the four quarters weighed 162 fone and 10lb.—14lb. to the ftone.

Tt is particularly recommended to farmers, at this time in the ſeaſon, to extirpate the thiſtles from their grounds without ſuffering them to grow to ſeed. By this care ſea‘onably uſed, they may be, at leaſt, exterminated entirely.—The thiltles in the lanes ought alſo to be cut down before the uſual time of this plant’s flowering.

The growth of grain on the Continent now promiſes a very abundant harvet. Flour, in Spain and Portugal, is new ſcarce ſaleable at ſeven or eight dollars a barrel.

At the great Irilh fair of Ballinasloe, on the 5th of O&Ætober, 609,000 Éheep and 40,000 head of black cattle are, on an average, ſold annually.

The price of land in Ireland has increaſd very rauch fince the Union z and tillage 1s greatly extended.—Irrigation is much and ſucceſsfully prac- tiſed near Dublin.

The average price of labour, in husbandry, throughout Ireland is eighteen-pence a day in harveſt,---eightpence a day, all the reit of the year.

JULY 19

In the province of New Brunſwick, in Britiſh America, a Saw-mill has

Pately been ed to cut plank for the Engliſh market, which works fiftren