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quality poor, lOs. per quarter less price tlian last season ; seed 2 to 3 busliels. 

 Oats, 50 bushels, with average straw, both damaged by wet harve.st, about a 

 fourth less value than last season ; seed 4 bushels. Harvest commenced 29th 

 August, fourteen days later than last year. Hay an average crop, 2 to 3 tons. 

 No meadow hay. Eegent potatoes from 7 to 10 tons, one sound to three 

 diseased, these sold, bringing 20s per ton less than last year. Champions 

 sound, 25s. per ton less than last season. Turnips 10 to 20 tons, half of 

 what they were last season ; had to be resown in many cases, caused by 

 cold frosty nights and bright sunshine forenoon. Crops were not injured 

 by insects. Turnips were partly hurt by weeds, but the damage was not 

 great. Pastures were a good average both as to growth and quality. Stock 

 thrived fairly well, and were quite free from disease. Clip of wool under 

 the average. 



Berwickshire. — Wheat, 30 bushels, all damaged by bad weather ; straw, 

 say about 250 stones ; seed sown about 3 bushels. Barley, 30 bushels, 

 bad quality, being damaged with wet weather ; straw say about 170 stones ; 

 seed about 3 bushels. Oats, 36 bushels ; straw remarkably light, say 

 about 160 stones ; seed about 3 bushels. Harv^est ten or twelve days 

 later than usual. Rye-grass and clover mixed would average, say 1 ton ; 

 crop light and short. Meadow hay v^ery small crop and badly got. Potato 

 crop, say 10 tons ; disease bad amongst regents, but reds and champions 

 did not suffer much. Turnip crop 12 or 13 tons ; crop brairded very 

 badly, had to be sown in many cases three and four times over, owing to 

 the frost at night destroying the young plants. Turnips were injured liy 

 fly to a greater extent than usual ; other crops did not suffer anything un- 

 usual in the way of insect damage. No injury by weeds. Pastures neither 

 of average growth nor quality with last year. Stock thrived badly, but 

 were free from disease. Clip of wool under average. 



Roxburghshire. — No Wheat. Barley, 28 bu.shels ; straw shorter and 

 more brittle ; grain 4 lbs. per bushel less weight, and altogether of inferior 

 quality ; 3 bushels sown. Oats, 36 bushels ; straw as good as last year ; 

 grain about 1 lb. lighter, and not so well coloured ; 5 bushels sown. 

 Harvest about a week or ten days later than usual. Both rye-grass and 

 clover better than last year ; about 19 cwts. No meadow hay. Potato crop 

 10 tons (or nearly), hardly so good as last crop, not so well grown ; little 

 disease ; champions or rocks mostly grown. Turnip crop braird bad, in- 

 jured by frost and fly, especially the early sown swedes ; resowing verv 

 general. Pastures deficient in quality and quantity. Stock did not 

 graze well, but were very free of disease. Clip of wool good quality and 

 average quantity. 



Selkirkshire. — Almost no wheat grown. Barley a fair crop, but 

 secured in an unsatisfactory condition, and samples of grain now on sale 

 are mostly of inferior quality, and prices are nearly 10s. per quarter under 

 those frequently current ; from 3 to 4 bushels is sown. Oats an averu'^e 

 crop, both in grain and straw, but owing to the want of frost and winds the 

 grain is wanting in condition ; from 4 to 5 Inishels of oats is sown, and the 

 average yield will be from 24 to 3») bushels. Harvest commenced about the 

 visual time, viz., the third week in August. Rye-grass liay was an aveiaue 

 crop, and mostly secured in tine condition ; the crop would range from 2 to 

 3 tons. Meadow liay was decidedly deficient in quantity to last year, a.-^ 

 excepting the warm week about the end of May the weather was t'(io old 

 and wet. Potato crop was under an average in quantity, excej)tin'^f the 

 variety known as champions, whicli were an average crop, and almost 

 free from disease, and fine quality ; about 4 tons is an average crop. Tur- 

 nips not above half a good crop, of sound quality, and from 10 to 12 tons. 

 The crop brairded well, but was ahuoet destroyed by turnip-lly, and re- 



