At the annual dinner of the Yorkshire Agricultural Association in
York, on Monday, Mr. E. S. Cayley mentioned several particulars respecting the state of the crops and the markets for agricultural pro- duce.
The Scotch had last year a very good crop of turnips, while the South of England bad no turnips. They sent their cattle in stram"vessels from the East or seotialsi to London, and from the West to Liverpool; but the cireuttestances side!' then contd. betted to their prosperity do not exist now ; for many of their green crops have failed very much; awl I ant also sorry to say that the green crops hate tailed very much in Ireland. • • • So far as I base been able to make out, in the sbutherie coun- ties of England—in Kent. Essex. Norfolk, Sussex. Cambriege, and Herefordshire, the six great wheat'grow lug districts—I believe the supply of wheat will this year be equal to an average; and I rejoice in it, because some at the farmers there have leen the greatest starters from the tall of wheat. But coming to the Midland and Northern counties. I do not believe the crop in the North is above soon eighths of an average ; and I believe it is still less ill Scotland and Ireland I am now speaking of elite quan- tity of corn per acre; hot is hen o,o take into consideration that there has been one- sixth or one-seseuth less sown. I confess I du nut think there still be sufficient wheat grown in this kiugdone this year to answer the purpose's of the population ; and I therefore think nt mast have such prices as will bring dean the Maty se as to admit an import Si ion of threign corn. Now, as te result of less wheat being sown this year, there .....helm llll ire barley. I believe a greater Ineatith of tam hey. Barley has at- tained au extraordinary price within the I est four or Ave weeks ; for winch there are one or two causes. First, there were no large stocks on hand; next, it has been very badly harvested hi most parts of tine country, very little being in a tit state fur the maltster ; and such as was, sold at extraordinary prices. I myself held for two Or three weeks. that barley ntust fall, merely from the circumstance that leant barley had got an extraordluary price in the onset, and then, when sufficient came into competi- tion with it, it must tall. I do not mean to a very great extent, but that it will not be 46:. or 47s. per quarter. • • • It is %sell known, that front the very great scarcity of hay, those kinds which were not more than 21 per ton have 110W reached as high as 31. There is also a scarcity of turnips. The fly or grub got to them in the 'Western districts. and destroyed them to an touprevedented extent: and in Yorkshire I don't think (hate were above half a crop. Then the potatoes. I believe, are generally throughout the country a very failing crop. Loudon 19 supplied maiuly from Scotland, partly from Docousleire. and partly from the banks of the Ouse, the !lumber, and the Trent. Scotia al supplies Loudon annually with 40,000 tons of potatoes : this year, tom the best information I ant able to collect, not more than 4001) tons will be sup- plied. The consequences of that will be, instead of the potatoes being aide to supply a great proport 00 of the sustenance of the population of London, touch more will have to fall up en w heat ; amid even se ith the present limited supply, is heat will have to sustain a m tc,11 to eater harden than it has done in other years. owing to the failure of the crops which may be :ailed subsidiary to it. We then come to cheese anti but- ter ; and, according to the lest information I can collect, there will trot be more than two thirds the venality of cheese and butter that was produced last year. owing to the same cause which presleterei the failure in the flay crop, there not being the means of fe,ding cows. sable it to say. I hardly know alto One CIVIL 11411.Wiliillg to the ac- counts I have seen, and on which I place great dependeuce, that will not be more or ow- less a failure. • • • I would hose you to look tot ward to what may occur duritig the whaler. If mantifacturiug ii‘roduce falls„—if in consemwnee of is hat is done by that Hank of England. there is a great strain on the manufacturing districts, and a great pent of the hands are thrown cut of employ.—if.*: restrictions upon Joint Stock banks, or upon the supply of money. come hetet operation.—we shall have the manufacturers turning off a weed portion of their labourers at it filar when they are unable to pay high prices. lu conjunction with this, we shall have the new Poor- law coining operation. I supported that hill ; but I told Lord Althurp at the time, that if ever an adverse state of the manufacturing ititerests oceorred, it would be impossible to carry it into operation. I believe it to be a very good act, so ter as the Southern counties urn concerned. and so far as a state of prosperity is concerned ; but, ha my opinion, it is not calculated fur a state of adversity. It wmhl he utterly. impossi- ble for the tneasure to be carried into operation in a state of adversity, when a great part of Ow lab niters will be thrown out of work."
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