48'd Jgriailtura! Intelligence — Scotland, Isiov* 



by reducing tlie article to its late ftate in the market. Beans may be 

 reckoned up to an average crop. Oats are bulky, but, from feme 

 trials at the mill, don't piomifc to meal equal to lad year. The pota- 

 toes are not yet all up, but they are of good quality, and a very abun- 

 d.int crop indeed. Failures have been excellent through the whole 

 feafon, and Uill. afford a full bite. Young graffes look very thriving. 

 Wheat on fallows has been got fovvn in fine condition, and a regu- 

 lar healthy braird appear? on many fields. Harveft having been ra- 

 ther backward, and a good deal of rain of late, winter ploughing is 

 not far advanced. Our grain market during the laft quarter has been 

 looking up, and is expefted ftiU to rife. Old wheat, of good quality, 

 379. ; New 33s. ; Barley 3CS. ; Beans 2 16. Potatoes are not expe<9.ed 

 to exceed 5s. per boll. This will tend greatly to keep down the pries 

 of cat-meal, which is at prefent about i6d. per peck. 



Upon the whole, this pro'.nifes to turn out a more favourable yeaf 

 than the lali for the farmer ; for although his crop may not be quite 

 fo good, the prices are likely to be more in proportion than that dif- 

 ference. Many of his articles were fold at a rate abfolutely below 

 what they could be produced at lalt year. Our butcher market hss 

 fallen confiderably. Beef in retail, yd. to 8d. ; Mutton 66. to jd* 

 per lib. Tron. This is more than might have been expefted, confider* 

 ing the prices at the hft try ft, which fully exceeded the general expec- 

 tation. On the forenoon of the firft day of the tryft, there was rather 

 a dull appearance : this, however, did not lail long ; for buiinefs after- 

 wards became very brifK, and good prices were obtained for almoft ali 

 forts of cattle. Before the end of the week the muir was nearly quite 

 cleared. 



Rcfs-Jfjire ^larterly Report. 



We had, upon the whole, a fummer favourable to vegetation ; paf- 

 ture grafs was every where in great abundance ; and, now that the 

 corn crops are nearly all harvefted, they will, it is thought, turn out 

 above an average of the laft three years, wheat excepted, which was 

 much hurt with ruft, and almoft all infefted with fmut. Oats and 

 barley promile fnperior famples to ordinary years, being in general got 

 into the ftack-yard in fine condition. Of late, the weather has been 

 linfavouvable for the wheat feed ; and the little corn that remains in the 

 field, in liigh fit uat ions, muft fuffer by it. Potatoes are an abundant 

 crop ; many of them, however, are ft ill in the field, and may fuffer 

 from wet and froft, before they can be taken up and fecured. Turnips 

 are in general a vreighty crop. From this circumftance, and the bulk 

 of ftraw, winter keep for cat'le will be in great plenty. Cattle mar- 

 kets have of late been brifl^, and the prices confiderably advanced, 

 fince Auguft laft. Our corn prices cannot be noted. No wheat nor 

 cats have yet been fold of this crop, except a little of the former for 

 feed. Oat meal fells from 25s. to 26s. per boll of nine ftones ; Barley 

 from 2S?. to 3CS. ptr boll j Ueef and mutton from 4d. to <;d. per lib. 

 Dutch weight. \ . 



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