i 8«3 .' jfigriculiural InteUigehc^ — Scot/am, ifi I 



The prices of cattle and fhecp keep as high as ever at Linton market,- 

 The current price of hogs was from i6s. to i8s, ; and himbs, at Biggar 

 fair, from 8s. to los. 6d. a head. The princi{)al demand for both was 

 to the nortli country. Hitherto, fat cattle have been bought by thef 

 butchers as foon as they were fit for the (hambles ; and have fold at 

 los. 6d. and us. per (lone Dutch, fmking the offal; Beef and Mutton 

 at 8d. per lib. 1 7-^ oz. to the lib. 



The number of Enghfti dealers who commonly buy up cattle in the 

 north countiy, have been fewer than ufual, owing, it is faid, to the 

 failure of fome country Banks in the fouth. But this want has beer> 

 made up, by Scotfmcn carrying on that bufinefs, to a greater extent 

 than ufual, themfelves ; fo that, hitherto, there have been no want of 

 purchafcrs ; and there is every reafon to believe that the demand will 

 increafe, whenever the quantity of keeping becomes more plenty.———. 

 July 20. 



Argylefljire ^mrterly Report. 



The end of fpring, and the begioning of fummer, did not promifi 

 vtry favourably to the crops of this county. Fields that were wet and 

 cold, fuffercd much lofs from the grub-worm ; an infeft, which, if wc 

 may judge from its vifible efFe<fts, feems to have moft vigour in that forC 

 of cold' and wet weather which benumbs other tribes of animals and in- 

 ftfts, and renders them torpid and inatlive, or altogether kills them. 

 The numbers of thefe vermin that were to be feen in n>any fields this 

 feafon, when a handful of earth was turned up, was very alarming. It 

 is probable that a heavy roller drawn over fuch ground as would admit: 

 of it, would dedroy a very great proportion of them. The experiment, 

 at leall, would be attended with no great expence or trouble. 



But, notvvithftanding the partial depredation of th*)fe worms, and 

 the unpromifing appearance of many fields in the beginning of fummer, 

 the crops in general look now extremely well, and the worft fields have 

 wonderfully mended fince we have been vihted w.ith warm weather and 

 and refrefhing ihowers. The harveft, however, will not be early. 



Cattle of all kinds continue to fell at very high prices, though fome- 

 what declining of late. About Whitfunday, fome itocks of (heep in 

 this county, fold fo high as from 28s. to 303. the ewe and lamb. The 

 prices of wedders and of wool, are generally regulated in this county 

 by thofe of the Fort William markets. The temporary check expe- 

 rienced by our manufactures, mud of courfe affect the graziers. Meal 

 continues ftill at a moderate price, though a little advanced, being is. 

 6d. the ten lib. Butcher meat from 6d. to 7d. the Englifh hb. Butter 

 from 13d. to I4d. j and cheefc (new) 4d. the Tron lib. — July 16. 



Tiueeddaie ^mrterly Report. 



About the i8th April, the weather changed from almoft the mild- 

 nefs of fummer to the feverity of winter, and continued to blow, fnow 



and 



