j^^ Jgykukiiral Inldltgence — ScotlaiK^. Noy^ 



The price of cattle, tliough below laft year's rate 10 per cent., is per- 

 haps ilill high enough ; and, if trade flourifli, it is fuppofed they will, 

 maintain their prefent rates. Oci, 26. 



Dunifnes-Pjire Quarterly Report, 



TrfE weather, fince the middle of July, appears to have been more 

 variable on this well fide than on the eaft fide of Scotland. Both hay 

 ?nd corn harvells were interrupted by rain, though, after all, the crops 

 may be faid to be well got. 



Wheat cloes not appear equal to the promifmg appearance it had in 

 July, In many places, there is a great deal of fmut ; and in others, 

 particularly holm lands, mildew affeft^d the ear before the grain was 

 fullv fed. Where this is the cafe, the grain, though clean and well co- 

 loured, is hollow, which makes the mcafure weigh light. The beit. 

 ivhcat we have is on the uplands, upon the dry, though light foils. 



Barley is a good crop, and well got ; but tlie quantity fown has been 

 much bolow an average, owing to the expedation, that the fales would 

 he le&ncd. by the high duty on malt. Oats are generally good ;.. 

 nnd thofe cut within the month of September, are in good order ;_ 

 but fuch as w-ere lats\v have been injured by the weather. The lof»- 

 fo occafioned has fallen upon farmers who run wholly upon the 

 common or late oats. Thofe who fow both early and common oats 

 have the harvell divided j and many, this feafon, had the half of 

 tligir crop in the yard before the Jate feed fowers begun to cut. 

 Various advantages arife from fowing a portion of early oats, be- 

 frdej the f^'curity from frods, which fomctimes overtake the late ones. 

 The potato oats appear to keep their pre-eminence upon good land- 

 Even ,when they lodge, they are more than proportionally better than 

 common oats. The moil general error of farmers, in the management 

 of all early corns, is the letting them become over-ripe. Much cf the 

 bed of the grain falls, and the ftraw lofes its fubllance. It is not at- 

 tended to, that a pickle of early oats, cut nearly green, will become 

 firm and meal well, when common oats of the fame hue are nothing but 

 chaff. Here it may be proper to obfei-ve to fanners of lefs experience, 

 that early oats become later as the fame feeds continue to be fown in 

 this country. It has been found, that PoliOi oats, fov»m for ten years, 

 will lofe as many days in ripening, and alfo become fmaller in the pickle. 

 They will grow lefs liable to fhake ; but the original purpofe failed — 

 their early and fupe»-ior quality. 



Potatoes are a good and full crop. They are now (hipping at 1 8d. 

 the cwt., which pays well to the farmer near the coaft. 



The prices of corn has rifen confiderably. The Liverpool faftori- 

 are now beginning to (hip. Wheat, found, weighing 60 lib. the Win* 

 chcfter buflicl, is worth from 7s. to 8s. Barley at 50 lib. 4s. ; but or- 

 dinary barley this year weighs ^^ lib. Oat racaJ, in retail, is 28. 2d. 

 per ilone. Whether this advance is from the ftate of the crop, or the ef- 

 feft of the late ad of Parliament, is not certainly known. It proba- 

 bly 



