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The wheat crop was nearly everywhere above the average, 

 and, owing to the high temperature, the quality was generally 

 fine. Over considerable breadths barley was a good full 

 average, but in many places it suffered from the drought, and 

 was an inferior crop, particularly as regards the yield of straw. 

 In one or two isolated districts the rains of autumn darkened 

 the colour. Oats were, as regards quality, a good crop ; but over 

 large districts, particularly in the counties of Perth, Aberdeen, 

 Moray, Inverness, and Sutherland, the crop suffered much, in 

 some cases disastrously, from the severe drought. 



Potatoes were everywhere a large, fine crop, except where the 

 drought seriously damaged them ; and the crop was almost in 

 all districts free from disease. In almost all parts of the 

 country turnips was an exceptionally large crop, the only 

 exception being a few places where the drought appears to 

 have been most severely felt. 



[Agricultural Statistics. 



