kp9 Agricultural Intelligence — Scotland. Feb. 



vants are mollly kept in the houfe in this country ; and a ploughman gets 

 from 7I. to 7 guineas in the half year. Tradcfmens' wages are likevvife 

 very high : a mafon gets from 2s. 6d. to 3s. a day ; and wrights 2od. 

 to 28., with vi(5luals. Thefe, and various other expences which the 

 farmer is loaded with, muft be feverely f(?lt by many in this diftridl ; par- 

 ticularly thofe of fmall capital, and who have recently got their leafes 

 renewed with the landlord. However, the ftri£leil unanimity prevails 

 at prefent ; and we fincerely hope, when thefe eventful times come to a 

 crifis, that the Legiflature will have the farming intercft more in view ; 

 which is not the leaft material part of the national concem. Fat cattle 

 liave not yet exceeded 8s. per Hone, fmking offal ; but a confiderable 

 rife is foon expected, as the markets cannot have fo full a fupply when 

 the fpring commences. j7^'-'« '5« 



Lciltr from Falkirk^ J^^' ' ^' 



* With the political horizon extremely clouded on every fide, an,d 

 rach fucceeding day anxioufly looked forward to, and expefted to pro- 

 duce fome great event, it afforded fome confolation to refle6l that the 

 abundance of laft harveft would enfure plenty at home, whatever might 

 be the ftate of the crops abroad, and that we Ihould not be dependent 

 on foreign fupplies for our daily food ; a neceflity, at all times to be 

 deprecated, but, in the prefent ftate of things, a moft direful calamity. 

 In that general fentin.ent, and knowing that even a full average crop 

 •was icarcely equal to the confumption of the cou.ntiy, the farmer might 

 liave cordially joined, under the expeftaticn that his crops, althougli 

 they could not be expected to reach a very high price, xyould yet afford 

 him a decent return, at leafl fuflicient to mt>et the increafed and increaf- 

 ing demands on his produce. But this has by no means been the cafe ; 

 and the prefent low, aiid ilill declining rate of markets, and increafing 

 rate of even,' thing elfe, it,u{\: inevitably involve man)'- in inextricable 

 .difficrJties. Wh.'ther the threatened invafion, fo long held ir. terrorem 

 over our heads, has been a principal caufe, by the effe6t it ceiiainly has 

 had in prt-iring prematurely into the market an over proportion of that 

 Hock wliich is to cany us through the year ; or to what otlier caufe it 

 may be afcnbed, I pretend not to determine. However this m.ay be, 

 cc?ta'?"i it is thf^t tlie prefent low prices would induce us to think veiy 

 differeiitly of the lall crop, from what we would have concluded from 

 the combined conimunications frcm alnioft every quarter of the ki))gd(^m. 

 If too i^urii'.'erable a quantity has been prematurely thrown 01'. tiie 

 market, it may perhaps (to ufe the words of the ingenious Findlater) 

 turn ont to be * iirft a burft and then a n\[\.. ' The prefent prices ia 

 cur maket may be ftattd — Wheat, 22s. to 25s. ; barley, (if any price 

 can be quoted, foi frcm the language of the buyers, we would think 

 thny would fcarcrlv accept of it as a prefd t), 143. to 16s. ; oats, 15s. 

 to }"•!.. \ bc::;ns, t6s. to 19s. 



' 'i he ycr.ng v.heaiS are looking extremely well ; and graffes, although 

 by, no m.eans promihng, aie better tliau thev appeared at harveft time. 



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