MESSRS. STURGE'S CORN CIRCULAR
... The following are extracts from the corn circular of Messrs. Sturge:- Birmingham, 8th Mouth, 5th; 1846. During the past month the weather, upon the whole, was suitable for ripening the grain, and wheat harvest commenced in the earlier districts about a fortnight since, under the most favourable circumstances. Up to the 31st there was little interruption to the operations of the sickle, and ...