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BETHANY, KERRY.

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LLANMERI WiG.

" TORY RUFFIANISM."

THE FARMERS' OUTLOOK.

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THE FARMERS' OUTLOOK. To the Editor of the Montgomeryshire Express and? Radnor Times. Sir,—I am very sorry to learn that the agricultural outlook is anything but promising in your iaeighbour- hood. Here in Alid-Kent, in a radius of several wiles around my i esidence, we have the prospect of an abundant harvest of corn and fruit. Barley is' not much cultivated hereabouts, but the oats and wheat show up m excellent form—long in the straw, with heavy heats; the wheat all over the country just passing inti) a golden tinge. This is certainly the Garden of England" the land of corn, fruit, and hops. Tho latter are swaying their tendrils in the air high above their fourteen foot poles, and so far are safe. These want an equalization of tempera^ ture night and day. Our grand strawberry harvest is just hoff," as the waiter has it, and the ooater's cry of fresh drawn stra-a-a-berries, tuppence & pint." will not be heard again this season. Of bueb fruits we have an average crop; biack currants, however, considerably under the average. We are now in ihe very height of tile cherry time, and let me' tell you that lie who has not partaken of a Kentish Bigarau cherry is something akin to him who bad never kissed "a yullar gal." Tjey are crying them now at tupi.ence a pound fresh gathered." Oat of door grown marrows have already been cut by some of my neighbours cucumbers also. I hear no corn" plaint of any kind. Alter ten days of almost incessant rains the glorious orb ia ripeningallthtp fruits of thti earth to perfection. Within a few" yards of where I am writing this there is a clear unbroken space of nity acres laid down with one kind*- of potatoe. They are now in one sea of blossom that scents the gale. We have few, if any, Scotch aud north country farmers taking up farms in Kent, for the simple reason that they don't understand the oulture of hops and fruit; but on the Essex bide of the ThameV from me the northern men are continually taking up, vacant farms where grazing, corn growing, and the rearing of sheep and cattle is more suitable to them- and the land. They succeed where the sons of the, soil fail, the latter trooping away into the towns and1 cities.I aui, dear sir, faithfully yours, P;as Ynca, CHARLES AP THOMAS,* Singieweti Rjhd, Gravesend.

"VICARS OF KERRY."

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