240 Agricultural Intelligence — Scotland. May 



the land in a fine ftate for harrowing- A goOd deal of turnip land was 

 fown with wheat in the beginning of March : the fuwlng of beans, peas, 

 and oats, followed in courfc, and continued without interruption till 

 the whole was completed in .the higheft order. Barley feed is now 

 pretty well advanced, and many of the turnip fallows have already got a 

 fecond furrow. 



From the extent of turnips which remained unconfumed at the begin- 

 ning of this month, a coniiderable redudiioii in the letting price took 

 place ; but they afford fo little nourillimeot at this advanced period of 

 the feafon, when compared with nita baga, that the letter root is evi- 

 dently getting more and more into life, and will probably, in a few 

 years, entirely fiiperfede the common turnip as a fpring feed. 



A finer lambing ffafon we have feldom witncifed, and pallurcs are fo 

 forward as to afford a good bite to the ewes and lambs. Winter 

 ■wheats received a check from the bleak winds in February, but have now 

 s healthy promifing appearance. Young clovers are in general luxuri- 

 ant ; and from the kindly warmth which has hitherto prevailed, fpring 

 corns have made a quick braird. 



In our butcher markets, mutton has recently experienced a trifling 

 advance, the bell being now 8d. j^. lib. of [ 7^ oz. ; bell beef the fame. 

 Lean flock, both cattle and fiicep, are dearer than latl year ; but corn 

 markets are extremely dull. April i8th. 



E,nji Lothiafi ^larterly Report. 



From the unfettled weather of February, and firfl two weeks of 

 March, the commencement of feed-work was protracted more than 

 iifually happens in this diftridl ; and very little grain was got fown be- 

 fore the 15th March, when the bufintfs was entered upon with vigour. 

 Since that time the weather has been uniformly dry, generally very 

 rn-ild ; hut for fome days pad a degree of cold has prevailed, which 

 rivals that of any of the winter months. Vegetation, though it fet in* 

 with rapidity, is now completely Hopped ; and the ground is become 

 fo dry, that, without rain, the progrefs of fpring crops would be trifling, 

 even was the Hate of the weather in other refpefts materially amended. 



The winter fown wheats do not offer fuch a promifing fliow as laft 

 year, at this date, but the extent of land fown with that grain this 

 fpring is confiderable ; and exiiiing circumflances impericAifly call for a 

 farther augmentation. Wheat, in faft, is the only grain that bears a 

 price adequate to the fcale of modern rents, and Hands a better cliance 

 of maintaining its value than barley ; feeing that the value of the latter 

 is artificially depreiTed by the heavy public burdens impofed upon the 

 inanufadluring of it into malt, ale, and fpirits. Oats are capable of pay- 

 ing more money than barley, which, after all, is a ticklilh crop upon 

 the generality of foils, and is railed at a great deal of more expence. 



Markets for grain have not fludluated much in the courfe of the quar- 

 ter, though the demand has not been briflc. Befl wheat has generally 

 fold from 7s. to 7s. 6d./fr Wincheftcr bulhel. Barley from 2s. 6d. to 



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