Bonretbing like full crops of straw and the heads a fair size, but in sufficiently filled,, while on the poorer lands the crop will be very deficient, both in straw and corn. Even on the best land,' where the plant had been growing with greatest luxuriance, there are very few, laid places, because the heads, were not over weighty anywhere, aud this augurs badly for the moderate and poorer soils. It ib certain that some of these late crops will hav9 to stand into September. So far, then, as these observations extend, I see no reason to conclude that our wheat crops will be more valuable than they have been for the past five years. This doleful conclusion has, I need scarcely say. been arrived at with ex treme reluctance, and is quite contrary to the publicly-expressed opinions of competent judges on the subject, who, I fear, have been deceived by the splendid appearances which hundreds of acres of ripening corn present at the present moment over wide districts to those who take only a bird's-eye view of. o.ur glittering harvest fields. In oue respect the condition of the barley is exactly opposite to that of the wheat. Theearly planted crops appear to have the best of it, and in Dorset shire which contains some of the bestr barley-growing soil in England, their' are some fine, even, thick crops with very long ears, now bending down to ripeness. These, I was informed, were drilled in February, and the grain is full and plump, nor has a single one aborted, so that here at least there is almost a certainty of a good crop of first-rate malting barley. Next to this very promising-looking crop, however, is another large barley field — they are both after roots — that has come up very patchy, is quite short, and looks poor and sickly. In Essex there are good barley crops — bulky as regards strawi arid giving promise of an aver age grain crop. In the Midlands, though perhaps with exceptions, the barleys are not as promising as the above, and it is to be feared that over wide districts there will not be many reaty goood malting samples. 