886 Present State of the Crops in Norfolk. June,

reception of original communications on the tillage of the earth, breeding und fattening cattle, for the use ot novzces, and improvement of experienced farmers, in the literal ac- ceptation of the word; mine is, after all, but an individual opinion; if the majority of your readers think differently from me, 1 Shall bow to their decision, nay, continue to read with

Satisfaction any thing that comes from the lively pen of-

A. N. certain that it-will always be to the purpose, let the Subject be what it will.:

Conceiving that your distant readers will be equally grati- fied by an agricultural report of Norfolk for the present month, as[ always am by ove from the North of England, or any other quarter remote from me; 1 Shall beg leave to insert the following. The growing weather of last week has »reatly improved the appearance of the wheats on the ground. Ebers 15, nevertheless, but a weak plant on Such land as is not in yery high state, and even on the best Soils, the damage done by insects In the earth 1s considerable; the wire: worm has left a very thin plant in many places, 50 that the appearance'of a crop is very deceitful at a distance, and makes a Scruting, but an unpleasant task. The earliest S5own barleys are the best at present, but even the Kw late genial days of Sunshine have not improved them 50 much as might have been expected. Much complaint also 1s made of the Peas; ſrosty nights, and the Slug, have made great depreda- tions almost all over the county, and left the plants thin; where, however, they were drilled, and the land could be well hoed and cleared, they promise better. The oats are doing well, and vetches come forward apace. Lean cattle, and store pigs remain high. Beef 9s. 4d. and pork 885, per Stone of 14Ibs. Veal 6d. and 6d. balt-penny. Butter 9d,« Mutton 8d. per pound. Best wheats feich as bigh as 1005. per quarter. Barley little or none at maaket. Oats from 205, to 285. per quarter.

I am, Sir, yours,&c. AGRICOLA NORFOLCIENSIS,. ON LEICESTER AND MERINO SHEEP, IN REPLY TO PASTORILCS, BY MR. BARTLEY. Tov the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine, SIR, PECULATIVE comparisons are justly held to be invidi«

ous, and ought rarely to be indulged, further than as"

they stimulate to experimental results, of a nature generally interesting to be known.

It is ineidentally, and even with a certain degree of res