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English Crops

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Burritt wroie home fio n England a short lime sineo, - " The Oops nnd lbo Wéatbér are promising for the coming harvest. Ilaying timo has already commenced, with all iti huupy, he-illhy nspiratiniis. It ia worih a morning's ride or walk into tlie coumrv, to breathe the fra granee of the new-movvn grast.; to see it fall before the edgp of tlie scythe. By the vvny, speaking of scythes, it woulJ maka a Yankee farmer laugh ín his sleeve to see the tools calleJ hy tliat name in England, bui more cspecially the scythe-snailis. 1 should lik. 6 to send home to the Worces(er Agricultura] Society one of these in.struments, together with a rake of the liitest mprovemen!, as curios lies. 'I'lie English market is now opon to American Mrnufactures, and 1 am inclined to ihink it would o an e.c llent s;)eculation for tlie Americans to send over n large quanlity of tlieir best made scythes, suaths, rakes, and o:her wuoden wares used abuut llie farm-house, nnd take back, n exebnnge, stock of the Short-horn Durhnni and Aldemey blood." ' Ireland is slowly reeovering from the desolalion of destitutioti and disense. - Curn food is chenper and more abundant, which, with mi increa-e o!' early vegetables and milk, has contributed much to the comfort of the; people. i ever has abated in maügnity, though still widely prevalent. It is admitted lliat the crops a'-elhe mostluxuriant that ever appeared in the country. Tlie potatoe bids fair to survive the rumor which consigned it lo destruction. A iarger extent of other root crops lm." been cul'ivaied ihis year than in the last five yetW taken togethe. So there is hoe for poor Ireland yet."

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Signal of Liberty
Old News