l8oo. Agricultural IntelUgence — Scotland. I09 



The prices of grain, hay, and ftravv, have of courfe been flrong- 

 ly affefted with thefe untoward circumftances, and have reached to 

 a height, parti^iularly the laft, unparalleled in modern times ; and, 

 as we have every reafon to beheve that this has arifen folely from the 

 calamity of the cafe, it muft render the moft rigid economy, in the 

 ufe of the neceffaries of life, together with the utmoft poffible ex- 

 ertion to procure a fupply from abroad, more urgently neceflary 

 now, than at any period for a hundred years gone. 



The following have been the aveiage prices of good grain, &c. 

 for the laft three months : 



OiHober. November. December^ 

 Bufh. I coo parts. s. d. s. d. s. d. 



Wheat per boll 4 114 * 38 o 36 6 42 o 



Beans ditto do. do. 2j6 326 328 



Barley ditto 5 962 26 6 29 6 32 o 



Oats ditto do. do. 25 o 26 o 28 o 



Oat meal per peck of 8 lb. Dutch i 1 1 20^ 2 if 



Potatoes per peck, about ^ cwt. 010 10 10 



Beft beef per lb. of 1 yi oz. © 5' 05 *^ Sx 



Hay per (lone of 22 lb. avoird. I i i 4 '9 



Oat ftraw per kemple of about 



15 ftone hay weight 120 140 ^S ^ 



Wheat ftraw ditto for litter 80 10 6 10 o 



From a M'ld-Loth'ian Farmer. 



December 2S. — I confider that a comparative view of crop 1799J 

 with that of the preceding year, may be arranged as follows ; 



Wheat, as one third deficient, 



Barley, ditto. 



Oats, three eighths ditto. , 



Bran and Peas one half ditto. 



Potatoes, two thirds ditto. 



Wheat will weigh, upon an average, per firlot, ^6 lb. Barley ^S lb. 

 Oats 57 lb. There is not one third of the ufual quantity of wheat 

 (own, and ploughing is much behind. 



The produce of what we call good oats for the feafon, will he 

 from II to 13 pecks of meal. Oat meal fells at 2s. 2d. Peas ditto 

 IS. 7d. Bear ditto is. 6d. — all per peck of 8 lb. Dutch weight. 



We have jnfl received from London a copy of Sir John Sin- 

 clair's Propofals for eltabliOiing a Joint-ftock Company of 1600 

 ihares of 50I. each, for the purpofe of carrying on Experimental 



Farming, 



* This is the average of old and .nea^^ together; the btft o'd being ?.b<?ut 



•XZi. higher than avtuge. ' 



