ly6 Of the Agriculture of the County of Perth. April 



the farm in queflion, (who is held up as a model of cor- 

 reftnefs), it would be the befl trade in the kingdom. 



ly?, The feed-wheat is charged 5s. 6d. per boll lefs 

 than the produce fold. This might adlually happen ; 

 but the cafual rife of markets is not a fair ftatement of 

 rural profits ', the reverfe might happen in another year. 

 'idlyy The fame obfervation applies to the barley crop. 

 idly, The whole expence is charged only at the rate of 

 40s. per acre •, whereas the charge for ploughing, or 

 ■what is included under the expence of horfes and plough- 

 men, would amount to that fum, independent of inci- 

 dentals, harveft-work, thrafliing, &c. ^thly. The dif- 

 ferent crops are all excellent, and much greater than any 

 average will warrant, while no allowance or deduction 

 is made for light grain, ^thly, The prices are much 

 higher than what the fiars of Perthfhire will allow; their 

 average for wheat, from 1780 to 1796, being about 22s. 

 3d., which includes one year, viz. 1795, when grain 

 was extraordinary high ; whereas 27s. <5d. is ftated for 

 nearly the whole of the crop. It is needlefs to examine 

 this account of expence and profit further, as we be- 

 lieve the dulleft of our readers will be fatisfied that it is 

 very erroneous. Indeed, when the rent of a farm is 3I. 

 per acre, it is a handfome return if 20s. per acre of 

 profit is made, after intereft of (lock, tear and wear, 

 and all other expences, are paid. 



The Carfe of Gowrie is perhaps as regularly managed 

 as any diftrict of fimiJar extent in Great Britain ; and 

 we cheerfully beftow every manner of praife upon the 

 rational and judicious hufbandry there pra£lifed. Mr 

 Arthur Young, in his Agricultural works, often feeling- 

 ly laments the general bad cultivation of clay foils in 

 England : but were he to vifit this valuable tra£l of 

 land, he certainly would rejoice that there are fome 

 farmers in the kingdom who underftand the manage- 

 ment of clay foils. A better rotation than fixes cannot 

 be devifed for fuch a foil, provided the fallow break is 

 fufhciently wrought and manured, which, we believe, 

 is feldom negledted. 



Chapter 7th contains very judicious remarks upon that 

 neceffary ftep to improved hufbandry, viz. levelling of 

 ridges. Indeed, the different fe^lions of this chapter in- 

 cline us to believe, that Dr R. is intimately acquainted 

 "^ith the management of arable land ; for tillage, fallow- 



