The harvest of 1816 was known as the "malty harvest". There was no rain from the crops were set until the bonfire night. When the bonfires were lit it began to rain and the sun never shone for the rest of the year and the crops were lost. The people suffered greatly during the Winter and Spring The following Spring seed oats was £2 per barrel - an enormous price in those days and people were unable to procure seed oats

Droughts
During the Summer of 1826 there was a great drought. The oats crop was a very poor one and it had to be pulled during the night when it was moist with the dew because if pulled during the day it would break