1 1. I Agricultural Intelligence — England, Feb, 



for Englifh barley, than give 163. for Scots barley : and, It feems, this 

 great difparity in price does not arife fo much from a correfpondcnt 

 difference in weight, as from the former giving more ale or fpirits than 

 the latter. 



Ought not all thofe, in every county of Scotland, who arc interefted In 

 the growth of barley, to apply to Parliament for a modification of the 

 mah-duty, as has been the cafedurini^ the lail century ? for it is quite as 

 reafonable that an a6l fhould be pafiVd, ordaining all grain of the fame 

 fpecies to be fold at the fame price, however different in quality, at 

 that equal duties fliould be impofed affedling barley of very unequal 

 qualities. 



Fat cattle continue to maintain good -prices ; they give from 10?;. to 

 IIS. per Hone Dutch, finking the offal; and, by retail, beef fells at 

 from 6d. to 8d. per lib. ; Mutton, nearly the fame. Current prices for 

 both, 7d. per lib. 



Oats from los. to 16s. per Linlithgow boll. 

 Beans and peas from 13?. to i6s. 6d. 

 Wheat from 22s. to 27s. Sales dull. 

 Hjy from yd. to Sd. per Tron Hone. 



Herrings have almofl deferted the Frith of Forth this feafon ; but 

 cod has been found in confiderable abundance as far up as Alloa : and 

 many Engllfh veffels are employed catching them alive for the London 

 market, which is a new thing fo far up the river. 



January 25. 



ENGLAND. 



An Interefling corsmunicatlon was received from the gentleman who 

 favoured us with the particulars of the Duke of Bedford's hufbandry ; 

 but too late for our lail Number. Though rather now out of date, we 

 have made a few extrafts from it, and trufl they will prove acceptable 

 to our readers. 



Letter from a Scotch Farmer, on a Tcur through England, datjd Cardtjj'y 

 Wahs, C5L 21. 1802. 



* I left London on the 21 ft Auguft, on a vifit to our good friend 

 in Wales, and had tolerable opportunities of examining the hufbandry 

 of the country, betwixt the metropolis and that dillri(^l. During the 

 firft two ffages, the different corn crops appeared very good ; fome of 

 the wheat was carried, the beans nearly ripe, and the meadow-hay a- 

 bove half cut. From Marlborough to Dcvifes, neither wheat nor bar- 

 Icy was ripe ; and many fields of turnips were not thinned or fet out. 

 Near Bath, paflure and hay fields are very numerous, little land being 

 under corn crops ; and the fame obfervation may be applied to the 

 country around Briftol. Both thefe cities appear to have felt the effefts 

 of the late war, more feverely than other places ; for liundreds of fine 

 new-built houfcs remain unfinilTied in both of them j fome of them ap- 

 parently 



