34*^ Agricultural Intelligence — Scotland. July 



where vegetated freely, and the voung plants have in general a 

 healthy appearance. Potatoes arc a fine crop, being free of the 

 curl in general. 



The prices of both fat and lean ftock kept advancing till to- 

 Tvards Whitfunday, fince which they have been upon the decline : 

 The demand for lean ftock to the Englllh market, has been rather 

 lefs than ufual duritig this quarter. 



Nothing can yet be faiii with cei tninty as to the price of wool ; 

 the fale of that article being fcarcely commenced on this fide of 

 the Tweed. 



From the fmall quant'ty of grain in the hands of firmers, very 

 little has been doing in the corn mirkets of late. 

 * Prices at Berwick, June 28th, per boll of fix Winchefter bu- 

 ftieh. 



Wheat, 6o<;. to 8o-. Oits, 40'. to 45s. 



Beans, 65s. to ^cs. Earley, 40s. to 50s. 



Butcher meat, xvhich was at one time as high as lod. per lib., 

 lias, during tliis month, been gradually on the decline. Prices at 

 Berwick, fune 28th, vvere as follows : 



Beef, 8d. Veal, 6d. all per lib, of 16 ounces Englifli. 



Mutton, 8d. 

 June 30. 



ExtraBofa Letter from a Gentlemnn ia the Eajlernpart o/Berivich' 

 Jhire^ dated "June 29. 



*' About three weeks ago, I was led, by bufinefs, to the weftern 

 extremity of this County, at Leader foot, to which I went by Kelfo, 

 St Eofwell's, and Melrofe, and back by Mellerftain, Greenlawr, 

 and Dunfe, by which I f^w near 70 miks of country. To my view, 

 things by no means locked well. Wherever the land isftrong,or 

 en a cold retentive bottom, the crops of corn and grafswere wretch- 

 ed, and the pasture milerable. On dry-bottomed turnip foil';, every 

 thing looked well, but late. Since my return home, however, the 

 crops on the lafl kind of land in my ntighhourhood are pufhing for- 

 ward fiift. Turnip work is b'lckward, from the late Spring and 

 worn-cut ftate of the hoifes ; but it works famouily. Without rain 

 foon, I fear a great lofs in that crop, as the quicken requires much 

 working, which dries the foil fadly. Arnual weeds everywhere 

 abound far beyond common. Generally fpeaking, my farm is dry 

 Jand ; and where the culture has been legitimate, the crops are ex- 

 cellent. Some that I got lall year from the hands of a fmall farmer, 

 one of your favourites of the theorilt, and which I had to manage 

 as I bell could, till I worked to windward, is pour enough, yet 

 better tlun the bell managed cold bottomed, llay crops on cold 

 latd, and all that was lat? eaten, does not offer any decent profoeft. 



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