ijS2 Agricultural Intelligence Scotland, ■ Nov.. 



fome double, fome quadruple, with the exceflive public burdens, and 

 the great advance upon farm labour, and upon all Implements and ac- 

 cefTories of farmlnpf, are confidcred, and compared with the little ad- 

 vance upon every fpecies of farm produce, it would feem aftonifhin^ 

 how the farmer can fubfift ; or, as we fay in Scotland, * keep the mall 

 in the fliaft ; ' and yet the demand for farms is as a^reat as ever. This 

 can only be accounted for by two reafons : j/?. The confidence which 

 every body has in tlie ^ood faith, ftabih'ty and fecurity which they 

 poflefs under the Britifh conftitution ; 2Jfy, and principally, from the 

 fuperior mode of managing farms, which is beginning gradually to take 

 place. While men are allowed to exert their ingenuity, without con- 

 ftraint, and to enjoy in perfefi: fecurity the fruits of their well-earned 

 labours, they will cheerfully fubrait to burdens which, in other circum- 

 ftances, they could not endure. They then * fit under their own vine 

 and their fi^r-tree, ' and they can lo^k up and fay, < I am a man. ' I 

 would alfo beg leave to obferve, that the laft aft pafled for maintaining 

 the national defence, called the Defence A6t, gives general fatisfaftlon, 

 and is, upon the whole, favourable to agriculture, as it does not at- 

 tach to the Individual, but makes the recruiting and keeping up the 

 national force a public concern, which undoubtedly it ought at all times 

 to be. 



MorayJlAre ^mrterly Report* 



Our harvefl is now finifhed in the beft condition ; the weather is flill 

 fine, and a better wheat feed time was never known. 



The crop bulks well, and will be produdive. Wheat varies in qua- 

 lity ; but, on the whole, will be middling j — no deliveries nor fales yet 

 made. 



Barley is not plenty. Some contrafts are entered Into for delivery 

 in March next at 2is. per boll. Its culture has this feafon given way 

 to wheat and oats. The latter are a very full crop, and of fine quality. 

 The potato fort is now getting much Into ufe, and promlfe to do re- 

 markably well on rich land. Four Stirlingfhire firlots have this year* 

 produced nine ftone, Amflerdam weight, of meal. 



Potatoes are a bulky crop, and of excellent quality ; in this county 

 the curl Is almoft unknown. 



Turru'ps are in general middling ; fome fields particularly fine. 



Good cattle meet ready fale at middling prices ; while the inferior 



forts, and flieep of every defcrlption, are fcarcely allied after. 



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Banffpire ^tartcrly Rtprt. 



Our harveft was concluded, with only a few exceptions, about a 

 fortnight ago, and, upon the whole, the weather proved uncommonly 

 favourable. The (lack-yards, in general, do not prefent any extraordi- 

 nary bulk ; and, In cafe of a hard winter, provender may be in re- 

 ^ucft. But the fine funny weather we experienced through the greater 



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