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Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.
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The Harvest.
THE HARVEST.—From various accounts from different parts of England it would appear that the crops are not generally so bad as was at first anticipated, though some of the red and a considerable part of the white wheat has sprouted a good deal. In this neighbourhood those Farmers appear to have fared the best whose grain crops ripened latest, as the very heavy August rains affected them less than if they had been in a more advanced state. The yield is very abundant, in some cases nine quarters to the acre; but the early influx of foreign wheat into the Liverpool market, prevented Agriculturists in these parts from reaping so much advantage from this abundance as they would otherwise have done. Some of the country markets in the east of England showed a considerable advance in the price of old wheat. In those and the southern districts greater damage was done to the crops in consequence of the deficiency of hands, which was more felt than near the western ports opposite the Irish coast. Here even the diminution in the supply of Irish labourers was seriously felt, though we were not obliged to have recourse to the sinewy arms of our soldiers for assistance, as our southern neighbours were. It would be well to provide for this deficiency of Irish another year. With a stream of emigration from that unhappy country of 7000 per week, and with a consequent advance of labourers wages there, it is not too much to say that another year they will nearly all stay at home in "dare little Hireland," and leave us here in England to the tender mercies of Crosskill and Mc’Cormick.
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