^y3 Agricultural Intelligence — Scothind. Nov- 



notwithftandlng that (hearers wages were very high. The crop (Joes 

 hot bulk well, wheat excepted ; and from trials made, oats do not yield 

 meal equal to expectation. Barley is unequal in quality. Beans and 

 peas are not extenfively fown in this county ; but what we have of the 

 former are much complained of. The wheats, both winter and fpring, 

 prove very gifty, and of fine quality ; but potatoes are much below an 

 average ; and the turnip fields will not yield more than half their ufual 

 produce, notwithftandiug of which, they are felling from 6 to 8 pounds 

 per EngliPa acre. 



* Fat cattle are felling high, and expelled tiill to advance. Fat Hieep 

 are not plentiful; but from the- great quantity of half-fed ones that 

 mufl: be difpofed of at this time, mutton is greatly reduced in value. 

 We have very little demand for grain at prefent, and can hardly quote 

 prices. Oats and barley, 1 believe, may be reported at 203., and wheat 

 at 38 to 40s. per Berwick boll of fix Wincheiler bufhels. * 



Selk'n-lcJIjire ^jnrterly Report, 



The exccflive heat which followed the rains of July 19th and 

 20th, pushed on the grain crop very faft ; and the vegetable creation, 

 which was beginning to wear a faint and languid afpeft, immediately 

 affumed a thriving appearance. The rains which fell in the two fivil 

 weeks of Auguft, proved alfo very beneficial, by preventing the cropt; 

 from being prematurely ripened. 



In the higher parts of this county, corn and grafshave yielded returns 

 equal to an average ; but in the lov/er grounds, where the foil is drier, 

 the ft raw was rather fnort, though the ear was full-fized and properly 

 icatured. On the whole, the crop of this county may be fairly reported 

 as equal to an average. 



Irrigation was lately introduced on the Duke of Buccleugh's eft.iteia 

 this county, and bids fair to be attended with confiderable advantages. 

 Many of our lands are well calculated for receiving improvement in 

 this way ; and it is to be hoped that the practice will be extenfively 

 diffufed'. 



In confcquence of the goodnefs of hill paftures, and the unparalleled 

 liiildnefs of the feafon, flieep ftocks nre in good condition, though the 

 recent dcprelTion of prices will cat deep into the farmer's profit. This 

 dcprcffion, though unfavourable to them, is certainly favourable to o- 

 iher claffes of the community, and affords caufe for the public at large 

 to fay that the year is crowned with the Creator's bounty. — Ociober 1 7. 



Letter from a Gcntlt'man in ths Dl/iricI of CiiiricI:, OcloL'r 14. 



' Since th/f? beginning of June, we have had a tract of tlie molt ad- 

 ^uirablc weather ever remembered in tJiis county ; and, fince the com- 

 mencement of harveft, there has been fcarce a fingle day to interrupt 

 the labourr> of the important feafon ; — no fhaking v.-inds, nor rotting 

 rains, nor chilling froils, to blaft the labours of the hufbannman. An 

 vminteri-uptvd courfc of near two months of line drying weather in 

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