^5d Agricultural hit cU\ gene e — Scotland, Aug. 



For feveral days pad, the weather has been remarkably warm ; con- 

 fequently favourable to the wheats which were in blolTom. The fpring 

 fown wheats promife to be but a few days behind the winter ones at 

 harveft ; but, owing to the feverity of the drought, the growth of the 

 former have been greatly Hinted, efpecially upon gmvelly foils, or thofe 

 oi a light defcription. July 20. 



Mid-Lcihian ^(arterly Report, 



Since lafl: Report, the weather has been almoft uniformly dry, and 

 Tatterly very hot ; but, from the uncommon goodnefs of the leed time, 

 and finenefs of tlie n:oald, the corn crops look much better than might 

 be expeAed. Wheat has m.ended confiderably. Many helds, howe^er^ 

 are fmall in the Hem, and confequently will turn out thin. Upon the 

 whole, although there are few or no fields of any fpecies of grain that 

 can be deemed rank j on the contrary, many fields are very Oiort ; yet, 

 with a moderate quantity of rain, and an exemption from high winds, 

 there is eveiy probability that the crop will prove productive. 



However, fuch a long continuance of drought has burnt up the paf- 

 tures, and hay is univerfally a fcanty crop, but, from being fo well got, 

 is excellent in quality. Indeed, the prefent crop of hay will be bet- 

 ter worth one iliilling per Hone to the confumei", than the generahty 

 of lail year's crop was worth the low prices at which it fold. 



From the great lofs fuliaincd laft year, by the (hooting of turnips, 

 many people have been induced, this year, to delay fowing to a later 

 period of the feafon j but, wliere this has been adopted, the turnips 

 have either come up partially, or failed entirely. It is an important 

 fact, that feems not to be fo generally underilood as the fubjedl mei»its, 

 that the iTiooting of turnips docs not depend either upon late or early 

 Jo wing ; but is owing to the mode of raifing the feed. 



When the feed is raifed from untranfplanted roots for a fucceflion of 

 years, the turnips become foul in the neck ; and, if perfilted in, will 

 degenerate fo far, and have fuch a tendency to run into llalks, that they 

 ■will infallibly flioot, at whatever time they are fown ; for this tendency 

 evinces itfelf foon after the young plants are fingled out in the drill, by 

 three or four Hems fpringing from the fame root, which, in many in- 

 ftances, prevents the turnips from fwelling ; or, if they do fwell, they 

 are more open, fpungy, and lefs nutritive, as alfo more liable to be 

 injured by froft, than found, compact, well formed ones are. This 

 evil can only be remedied by thofe wlio raife the feed making it their 

 bufinefs to tranfplant whenever the firit inclination to foulnefs in the neck 

 of the turnips occurs. 



The fummer fallows have been got into a high ftate of cultivation ; 

 but, from want of moilture it has proved an arduous taflc to prepare 

 the dung properly for them. Some farmers are at pains to drive water 

 to their dunghills, but many others cannot adopt the expedient, for 

 want of it, 



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