358 Agricultural InielUgenee'^Bcotland, Auj. 



Dantzic ditto, - 32 s. to 34s. per boll Linlithgow mcafure, 



Britifh ditto, - 26s. to 33s. ditto. ditto. ditto. 



Englifh barley, - 21s. to 23s. , ditto. Stirling ditto. 



Scotch barley and bear, 12 s. to 17s. ditto. ditto. ditto. 



Britifh oats, - 163. to 20s. ditto. ditto. ditto. 



Irilh ditto, - 16s. to 2 IS. ditto. Renfrew ditto. 



Englifh beans, - 22s. to 23s. ditto. Stirling ditto. 



peafe, - 22 s. to 23 s. ditto. ditto. ditto, 



Scotch beans and peas, 1 9s. to 21s. ditto. ditto. ditto. 



Oat meal, - 19s. to 2 is. ditto, of 140 lib. Englifh. 



Ditto ditto, by retail, ijd. to i6^d. per peck of 8 hb. Dutch, 



New hay, - yd. to 8d. 1 



Old ditto, - 8d. to 9d. > per flone. 



Straw, - - 3d. J 



DumfriesJIjire ^tarterly Report. 



The frequent blalls of north- wefl winds, in the month of May, with, 

 the chiilnefs and froils which generally attend them at that feafon, gave 

 an unpromifing appearance to crops of every kind, but more particularly 

 to thofe upon clay or heavy foils ; and, upon v.l-ttilh and molTy grounds, 

 they were in many places irrecoverably loft, partly, it was fuppofcd, 

 by froft winds, but more evidently by the grub, or fmall light coloured 

 fnail, which prevailed in very extraordinaiy numbers, in May and in Vhe 

 beginning of Jurje, It was not in cold and mofTy foils alone that thefe 

 vermin proved deflru<5tive : Upon light and open foils, and upon clover 

 Hubble, where it would feem they had been generated in ihe autumn 

 before, they in fome places eat up totally the braird, after being fully fet 

 in the third leaf. 



liappily, however, thefe loifes, though fevere en individuals, were 

 not of fuch extent as to affe6l the general crop of the country. The 

 doubtful appearances in May gave place, after the feafonable rains in 

 June, to better expcftations ; and the warm, clear weather which fuc- 

 ceeded the rains, and Hill continues, feem:. to promife an early harvoft. 

 Wheat, even in the light foils of DumfrieslTiire, is a flrong crop, and 

 HOW in fuch a flate of health, and abundance of flower, as gives caufe 

 to hope that it may be well filled. Barley, though long backward in 

 heavy foils, now looks well ; and oats are generally good. The 

 Frielland, or fmall early oat, is moilly fhot, and feems well headed ; 

 but it is remarked, that the potato oat, though feemingly healthy, is 

 ^proportionally further back than in lall and former years. Turnips fown 

 by the 24th June are forward ; thofe fown later are very weak, but, as 

 they arc regular above ground, may Hill be a ufeful crop. 



Hay of fov.'n grafs is the moft abundant crop remembered in this 

 county, and is now moftly in pikes or tramped ricks. The further 

 back the fprlng growth, the crops feemed the weightier; even t[iofe 

 ^-at down till the end of April, having had a great growth after the 

 rains fell. This points out to many farmers, unpraAifed in feeding, the 

 ..dditional advantages to be had by fown graffes, cfpecially upon warm 



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