122 ^oftfcnpt to %cotifi Intelligence, Feb. 



Berwick Barley - 2 is. — 22s. per boU Stirling meafure. 

 North of Scotland ditto, 17a. 6d. — 2cs, ditto ditto ditto 



This Neighbourhood ditto, 12s. — i6s. ditto ditto ditto 



Irifh oats, - - i6s. — 19s. ditto Renfrew ditto 



Englilb ditto (very fine), 20s. — 21s. ditto Stirling ditto 



Scotch ditto - • I2S. — i6g. ditto Lanark ditto 



Bed oat meal - - 193. — 2cs. do. ijd. — 1 6d. p. peck, retail 



Irifli ditto - - 15s. — i6s. ditto IS. — is. id. ditto, ditto 



Britilh fine flour - 33s.— 35s- fack of 2^ cwt. 



American fuperfine ditto 40s. barrel ; Fine 36s. — 38s. 



Englifli beans - - 22s-. — 23s. boll Stirling meafure, 



Scotch ditto - - l6s. — 22s. ditto ditto ditto 



Ditto peas - - iBs. — 21s. ditto ditto ditto 

 Englifli and Foreign white ditto 233. — 253. ditto ditto ditto.' 



Morayfjire ^larterly Repcrt. 



The quantities of wheat, barley, and oats, in this county, are now 

 found to be fully equal to the average of ordinary feafons ; the quality 

 not fo good. Wheat weighs only 60 lib. Englifli the firlot of 22 

 Scots pints. Barley 68 Kb. Dutch per firlot of 32 Scots pints; and 

 Oats 54 lib. Dutch, fame meafure. 



Sales are dull in the extreme, and no fort of demand from our ufual 

 markets in the South and Well of Scotland. In the hope that wheat 

 may yet come into requeil, merchants are buying parcels at 25s. per 

 boll ; and a few oats at 12s. to 13s. 6d. as in quality. 



Our barley no perfon will touch ; and, to many, the caufe is obvious. 

 The late aft of Parliament, laying a fimilar duty on Scotch as on Eng- 

 lifli barley, has induced our brewers and difliillers to order north feveral 

 cargoes of the latter ; and as the produce fo far exceeds our own, it is 

 highly probable they \v\\\ continue to do fo, until Scotch beer is reduced 

 to, at leafl, two thirds the price of Englifli barley. It feems evident, 

 that had Government intended the ruin of this branch of Scotifli agri- 

 culture, no meafure fo cfFeclual could have been adopted ; but the an- 

 xious folicitude of the prefent Minilfer for the profperity of the coun- 

 try, and his experienced candour, leave no room to doubt that the re- 

 prefentations on this important fubject, prefenting from all quarters, 

 will receive that attention which they defervc, and that redrefs which 

 they require. 



The fale of cattle terminated, in Autumn, at prices unufually high. 

 Jufl: now, there is little doing ; for, as the price of beef rifes in our 

 weekly market, the difpofable quantity diminiflies ; the prefent retail 

 price is yd. per Dutch lib. Few farmers now feed for the butcher, 

 finding it more beneficial to beftow their turnips on young well-chofen 

 cattle, which are uniformly purchafed by dealers, in Maich and April, 

 for the South-country markets. Two ways of feeding thofe cattle are 

 adopted ; both have their advocates. The one way is, keeping them 

 loofe in a fliade, with open llraw-yard in front, and giving the turnips on 

 a grafs field ; The other is, to have them bound up in byres, and there 



fed 



