iSo^i ^Agricultural Litelllgence —Scotland. 48 j 



Englifli new oats, 22s. 



Ditto old barky, 22s. to 24s. I g^.^j. ^^^^^^^^^^ 



Scots ditto, I re fr^ i^c ( to 



. to 24s. ~J 



. to I 7s. 1 



1. to 24s. J 



Eeans and peas, 21s. 



Oat meal, 20s. to 21s. 6d. per boll of 140 lib. 



Ditto ditto, new, 22s. to 24s. ditto ditto. 



May, 7d. per ftone Trou weight. 



Straw, 4d. ditto ditto. 



Betf, icd. to IS. per lib. of 2 2 oz. 



Mutton, 8d. to IS. ditto ditto. ' 



IVigtonJlAre ^inricrly Report. 



The prefent difpifition of the weather is uncommonly favour- 

 able for the wheat-ft-ed. That which is already fown has literally got 

 a dry bed, for the duft was flying after the harrows, as in April; fo 

 that we have reafon to hope good efFefts will follow. Our potato crop, 

 though in general three weekr, later t'han ufual, will be very abundant ; 

 confiderahle quantities of which are yearly exported to England and to 

 Glafgow, and which, it is thought, will find a ready market. Our tur- 

 nips, upon the whole, will be an equal crop, though perhaps not quite 

 fo bulky as laft year's. 



The fall on lean ftock, and confequent recent failures of a number of 

 our cattle dealers, have given the farming intereft a fevere (hock. There 

 is no evil, however, in human life, but might have been worfe. One 

 lucky circumflance attends thofe lolTes — there are but very few among 

 us who are not able to bear them. Farmer? of large capital, like the 

 ftately oak, can fland the ftorm. It is thofe only of fmall capital, and 

 great enterprize, that deferve our commiieratlon. And in thefe times of 

 puhHc dillrull, it is hoped the gentlemen of landed property will fee it 

 to be their true/} intcrejl to iiep forward in fupport of induftry and en* 

 terprize. 



With regard to hceping flock, very few fales have taken place of late. 

 At prefent, nobody wiflies to buy ; and nobody, who can do otherwife, 

 wifhes to fell. At fame time, it may be obfcrved, that the demands 

 for Galloway cattle of late years have been fo great, and the prices 

 offered to holders fo tempting, as made many of them part with thofe 

 they intended to have kept another year ; infomuch that, excepting m 

 fome particular fituations, only our young ftock are on hand. Thofe 

 fev/ farmers and graziers among us who hold St Faith'' s catth-, have fct 

 off to England at the head of their own droves ; for, unlefs it be the 

 Mcffrs Smiths and Meffrs Corfans, who arc drovers of large capital, few 

 others, in the prefent fituation of affairs, can be trufted. But when 

 we look on our abundant crop of hay, large llack-yard^, and fpacloua 

 fields of turnips and potatoes, we have good reafon gatefuUy to conclude 

 ourfelves more highly favoured by ^ the God cf harvjl ' than moil coun- 

 ties in the United Kingdom. 



Good butcher meat ftill maintains the ufual price, 66. per lib.^ 



jhpugh inferior rauir mutton i? felhng at 4d, As it is thought the im- 



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