Farmer and stockbreeder . ould be done at the proper time. July 21. W. H. V. DZVON-CROPC—BEEF AND MUTTON The vieather has been very bad for hay, anda lot has been damaged—ciuite 50 per cent. Corn is in need of fine weather, being very for-ward, and cutting will begin in aVout a veoK. Some fields of winter barley are tit to cut now,and a fair crop is promised. Oats are not rery heavy, barley is medium,but laid with rain in some places. Beef and mutton make about .control and calves are very dear. Eoot crops are promising, and grass is fairlyplentiful. H- H- Julv 21. LINGS (S.)—
Farmer and stockbreeder . ould be done at the proper time. July 21. W. H. V. DZVON-CROPC—BEEF AND MUTTON The vieather has been very bad for hay, anda lot has been damaged—ciuite 50 per cent. Corn is in need of fine weather, being very for-ward, and cutting will begin in aVout a veoK. Some fields of winter barley are tit to cut now,and a fair crop is promised. Oats are not rery heavy, barley is medium,but laid with rain in some places. Beef and mutton make about .control and calves are very dear. Eoot crops are promising, and grass is fairlyplentiful. H- H- Julv 21. LINGS (S.)—POTATO CRCF—EEAHS AND PEAS We have now had a week of fair summerweather, with but little rain. The month ofclouds and rain has proved too much for thepotato crop. The fir^t two weeks did them good,but the second two weeks were more than theycould stand; the tops of the earlies have suddenlyfallen, and in the later sorts one can see patchesof brown leaves. I hope this fine weather will. arrest the jiace totally) of. Photo !n/] I /?^^ Shorthorn Bull SWINTON ROSICRUC/AN 2nd Sold for 3,100 gns. Exhibiled at Ihc Uo,j„l t>y MA-JOft C HEIIIIE.\S, .Sll /. (!H.\S(IK, MALTOS, YonisS. to a degree,the blight. Wheat and oat cro|)s are heavy, and mueh arelaid, which means a eostly and long harvest. Ueans and peas are promising, and about halfthe ilover and hay (big crops) was gathered inline iondition. The other half is very muchdamaged. Jhe rain has given us plenty of Hummer are doing well, and the high prices arekeeping up. The quantity of grassland ploughed up duringthe Jast few years forbids the keeping of may go all day and not see one hundred. The strawberry crop has done well; yield andprice satisfactory. Apples are scarcelyworth the trouble of putting the ladder to thetree. The same applies to pears. Plums are afair half crop. S. E. L. .luly 20. CORNWALL (E.) -HARVESTING-WHEAT CHOP It has been so wef and unsettled during tlialast month that ver
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