l8o'4' -^ Cure for the Black- Spald in Calves y ^c. ts'i; aoa 



tween the u^fliili. j then put half of the fait and water over the 

 bealt's throat ; put half the rcmainnig water and fait inio one of 

 its ears, keeping the ear clofe with the hand, and the remainder 

 into the other ear ; then keep both ears clofe, lo that the water 

 may be kept in for about a minute or fo. If the beafl; fliake ir«? 

 head vehemently when let loofe, it is out of danger. The above 

 cjuantity is a proper dofe for a year old ; for a full grown bealt 

 double the quantity may be adminillered. 



No. XV. contains a note by you, faying, that the fcab in fheep 

 is.eafily cured by tobacco liquor and fpirit of tnr. As that dif- 

 eafe hds been very common and deftrucStive in tKis place, for fe- 

 veral years paft, it would be doing an eflential fcrvice to many 

 readers, to point out, through the channel of your valuable Maga- 

 zine, the proper quantity of faid medicines per Icore or hundred ; 

 what preparation is n.eceflary ; how, and in what feafon, the ap- 

 plication can be made with moil advantage and fafety. 



In June laft, I meafured nine bolls of oats, weighing 14 flonc 

 2 pound each. ' They were carefully dried, carried to the mill, 

 and made into meal. The produce from faid corn was 6 bolU 

 14 pecks, at nine Hone of meal per boll; in other words, they 

 yielded 12^ pecks of meal per boll of oats. As I think there is a 

 great defeA in our mills, or millers, in this part of the country, 

 would be glad to know what quantity of meal a given quantity of 

 oats produces in other parts of the country, where machinery and 

 millers are good. The feeds of the above meal were as clean as 

 it was polTible to make them. The gentlemen in this place have 

 not as yet availed themfelves of the advantages of the tl^irlage bill. 

 The old pra61:ices continue. Every perfon is bound to grind his 

 crop at a certain mill, where multures, knavefliip, and miller's 

 meal, with the feeds thereof, are all paid in kind. 



Servants v.-ages have been higher this year than at any former 

 period. The higheft priced fervani.s (though not always the befl) 

 get 7I. .OS. this winter half year; ordinary hands 5I. to 5I. ros.5 

 boys from 3I. to 4L ; maid fervants from 305. to 33s. They have 

 all been alldng ftill higher for the enfuing half year. Woiiien, 

 for the time of harvell (which, in ordinary feafons, is performed 

 in fix weeks), are afking 40s. ; and men from 3I. to 4I. Nothing 

 but fcarcity reduces wages here, and there is a probability of 

 that being not very didant. We have no labourers ; but all our 

 work dons by fervants maintained in the mailer's houfe. Thck: 

 v^ho have crofts are above hiring for day's wages. I am, with 

 Tcfpe<i\ and efl^em, your very humble fervant, 



W. Craigie. 

 Belfiabothy AberdeenJIjirCy i^th April 1 804. 



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