A correspondent, whose knowledge, judgment, and opportunities of ob- servation,
entitle his opinions to great weight, has just communicated to us the following notice of the agricultural phenomena of the season- " You will recollect how closely I attended last summer to the operation of the cold weather on the growing crops, and what a gloomy view I took of the future, as to quality, whilst the general opinion was that the yield would be first-rate. With the same close attention 1 am watching the effects of the present May weather in February. The result is very discouraging. The advance of the wheat crops already is such that frost, which surely must come yet, will en- evitably do great mischief. From the absence of frost, vermin abound and are getting strong. In the heavy lands the cry is for frost as a means of rendering the soil workable for spring sowing.. The turnips have grown so much, and are still growing so fast, that many farmers hereabouts give the feeding of them for nothing to anybody who will turn cattle into their fields: they lose the turnips but get the manure. On the whole, I am persuaded that great mischief has been done already, and think it probable that, let what weather may come now, more will ensue. It seems likely, tco, that this premature summer will be followed by cold spring weather in summer-time, like that of last year. If it should be so after a very premature and sickly growth of everything, this year's yield will be wretched—certainly in quality, perhaps in quantity. I shall watch on, and perhaps write again."
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