iz6 Agricultural LitcH'igefJce — Scotland. Feb, 



Extracts from Private Correspondence. 



SCOTLAND. 



InvcrncfsjVire ^larterly Report. 



Our crop was, on the whole, better fecured than could have been 

 C!i:pefted, from the extreme vvetnefs of the latter part of the au'.U'nnal 

 feafon ; but It was Martinmas before the whole was ^ot into the ilfck- 

 yard. The produce, as to quantiry, 1 believe, will equal that ot an 

 average crop ; but the quality is very inferiur, owing to the great want 

 of funfhine during the Summer mouths. Except for barley, thee is 

 HO demand at prt-fent for any fort of grain ; and the lavge i nporiationa 

 of that article" from England, and various parts of Scotland, have, vvit-h- 

 in thefe few days, glutted our mark-t complet':;ly. Be'l Norfolk bar- 

 ky has been offered fo low as 27s. 6d. per boll in quantities ; but, for 

 fraall parcels, 30s. may (HIl be brought ; inferior qualities, as low as 

 24s. As for wheat and oats, I have not yet heard of any of thefe 

 grains being fold at fixed prices ; but oat-meal in retail, brings is. 4d, 

 and li. jd. per peck of nme pounds, and barley-meal is. ^d. per peck 

 of ten pounds. The weather has been uncommonly mild of late. Un- 

 til this day, our pi ughs can hardly be faid to have been flopped by 

 frolt. The demand for cattle of all defcriptlons, was very great at the 

 ktter end of tlie feafon ; and fo few are left in the country, that 

 prices are likely to go very high in Springtime. Winter fodder is very 

 plentiful, and liO deir.and prevails for hay. jf^^^' i^« 



Letter from David Sheriff Efq. dated Kimn-jlees^ near Invernefsy 

 January 12. 1803. 



* As I conceive it to be very proper, that any thing relative to rural 

 affairs, out of the common train of occurrences, fhould be clrcumflan- 

 tiated as to place, date and perfon, I therefore give you authority to in- 

 fert, in ytnir next Number, the following account of a ewe, which is 

 prefcntly in my poff. llion. 



* In the month of March i8or, I bought 2?5 ewes of the fmall coun- 

 try breed, fuch as may be fed to 8 lb. per quarter, which I grazed upon 

 the "iitficrld pailure, and among the woods belonging to my farm. I fold 

 the iambs produced by thefe ewes, in the month of June following, at 8s. 

 per head , and the twes, on the ifl January 1802, after getting a very few 

 turr i|i, at 158. Oi^e of thefe ewes, an extreme old one, without a tooth, 

 had a lamb taken off abi)ut the ift June 1801, and on the 5th of Novem- 

 ber following (he had a fecond, which I killed on the 29th December, 

 having refultd 30s. for it. On the 20th April lalt, (he had a third 

 lamb, which i fold at 12?. along with nincfcore more: and this day, 

 the izlh January 1803, the fame old ewe has dropped a fourth hmb, 

 apparcrtly of a healthy and (Irong conffitution ; and 1 have little doubt 

 but I lliall get 25s. or 30s. for it next mcmth. I havejuft now put 

 the ewe into a houfe to feed with turnip tops and kail, the only food 

 {lis can now eat, from her total want of teeth, ' 



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