It^ Agricultural Inlell'igence — Zootlancl, Feb. 



of 14 lib. ; but is now from 5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d. The caufe of the fall of 

 this valuable article Is not yet underftood. The buyers of laft year, at 

 prices from 8s. to los. the {tone in carcafe, were thought, in the end, to 

 have done very well. J^f^' '/• 



Letter from a Gentleman near Per thy January t8. 



< In this part of the country, the ftate of the weather, from the 

 clofe of Harveft till within thefe ten days, has, on the whole, been fa- 

 vourable to rural labour. The ufual autumnal ploughings were given, 

 and even fome people ploughed light lands for oats ; a pra6llce which 

 fuits fuch foils well, by allowing the ground to be confolidated before 

 feed time, confequently rcfifting the Summer drought with greater vi- 

 gour. The open weather has permitted every advantage to be got 

 from the paftures and clover ftubbles, and benefited the growers of tur- 

 nips. Stock of all kinds is flill high, and 1 prefume will continue fo 

 during the enfuing Spring. 



* The young wheats look well in general. In this neighbourhood, wc 

 fow rather early than otherwife ; ftldom or never trufting to a late or 

 fpring fowing, as is done in the fouthern counties. I am convinced 

 our practice, in this refpcft, is confiilent with our intereft ; for, from 

 local circumftances, we feldom experience the comfort of genial Spring 

 weather. While on this article, I may mention a fmall occurrence 

 which happened on my farm at lad wheat-feed time, feeing it may cau- 

 tion others from falling into the like error. 



* My fallow being in forwardntfs for receiving the feed, I was led to 

 buy fome Englifh wheat of crop 1801, which, to appearance, looked to 

 be very fuperior grain ; but, from the effcds of the urine and hot lime 

 ufed in the pickling procefs, the braird made was a very imperfect one, 

 fcarcely one half fo thick as I had reafon to expeft ; and, what was 

 more furprifing, the plants were gradnally thinner, according to the 

 progvefs made m fowing ; what was fown firR, being thicker confiderably 

 than what was fown at the conclufion of the work. From what ia 

 flated, 1 prefume to fuggell to all concerned, the propriety of pickling 

 a fmall quantity at a time ; and it becomes a qneilion with me, whe- 

 ther old wheat needs pickling at all. It is probable, fome of your 

 friends may have fuch experience on the fubjcft, as to fay v»/hether old 

 wheat does, or does not require pickling ; and would any of them com- 

 municate their opinion , I, for one, would thank them mofl fincerely. * 



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* The Conductor begs leave to afTure hia worthy correfpondent, that 

 wheat of all ages requires to Lc pickled, in order to preferve it from 

 fmut ; thouprn there are numerous inilanccs of the difcafe being avoid- 

 ed, even when the procefs of pickling had been negledted ; but no pru- 

 dent man will run fuch a rifl^, the lofs fultained in one fatal year, being* 

 often greater than the expcnce of pickling during a whole leafc. Our 

 correfpondent had allowed his wheat to remain too long among the 

 uriiie, which is always attended with fatal confequenccs. 



