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Agricultural InteHigeKce — Scotland, 



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been made with feverfty, while the commifiioners and thofe below them 

 beilowed much attention upon the execution, fo far as the meaning of 

 the aft could be eomprehended. Under thefe circumftances, it excites 

 (iirprifc that a complete revolution in the adminiitrative body has this 

 day been made at the county meeting, the leading and acting commif- 

 fioners, appointed lalt year, being left out in the nomination, and otliers 

 chf>ren in their place, who, with one or two exceptions, belong to that 

 body generally recognifcd under the name of the Family compu^. It is 

 not for negledt of duty, eitlier in the commiiTDiicrs or officers below 

 them, that this change has been made, but merely hecaufe thty prc/um- 

 ed to exercife the power, committed to them by the aft, of chooling 

 their own coUcftor. Ii) making this appointment, they paffed by the 

 colleftor of the land-tax, and made choice of a young gentleman of dif- 

 tlnguiflied abilities, one who was intimately acquainted with ofTicial de- 

 tail?, and who, in faft, had difcharged the duties of the colleftor's of- 

 fice for many years, with credit to hrmfelf and fatisfadllou to the pub- 

 lic. At any rate, the diflicnlties attendant upon the execution of the 

 aft beiiig certainly now much removed, it may be conpKlered as refined 

 policy to give the heat and burden of the day to one fet of men, and to 

 fweep them ofY when the labours of ofRce may be performed with eafc 

 to thofe concerned. One half of the trouble will not afterwards be call- 

 ed for, as was ncceffary at tb.e ourfet ; and the fubjeft being better uii- 

 derftood, httlernore thah the common routine of bufinefs will be requir- 

 ed to carry it into 



Wheat 

 Barley 

 Oats 

 Peas 



All per boll of Linlithgow ftandard meafure. 



Mid- Lothian. 

 Beft wheat 

 Second do. 

 Bell Barley 

 Second do. 

 Third do. 

 Beft oats 

 Second do. 

 Beft oatmeal 

 Peas and beans 



16s. 



15s. 



cd. 

 od. 

 od. 



Berzu'icLjljire, 

 Wheat 

 Merfe barley 

 Lammermuir do. 

 Merfe oats 

 l^ammennuir do. 

 Rough bear, or big 

 Peas 



All per boll of fix biifliels. 

 Oatmeal - - i6s. 6d» 



16s. od. 

 15 s. od, 

 I5s.-cd. 

 2 OS. bd: 



per boll of eight ftone Dutch. 



Ah.-rdei nJJjire^ 



Farm meal, 8 ftone - - i6s. od. 



Farm or market bear, without fodder 1 6s. od. 



White, raeal, 9 ftone - - 1 8s. 2d. 



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