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at one time, were as high as 57s. per boll, of fame fize, have, for 

 fevera! weeks, fold at 48s. and Jl'. 



The demand for fat cattle has fully equalled the number fit for 

 killing •, but prices, owing to inferiority of quality, and the plen- 

 tifulnefs of lamb, have of late decreafed from 15 to 20 per cent. 

 In the middle of May, decent beef was worth i2s. 6d. per Hone 

 of i^^ lb. finking the offal j but it now may be confidered as not 

 exceeding 9'-;. upon an average. Mutton is rather lower. Lamb, 

 if good, much the fame pr ce as rnutton. From the barrennefs of 

 the paflures. it does not appear that beef, in this distri;5l, will be 

 plentiful during the feafon. 



Gifford Summer fair (the only one of conf-quence in this couh- , 

 ty) was well attended •, but the demand for lean Rock was very li- 

 mited. Few good horfes were prefented, and a great number or 

 ilieep remained unfold. 



An unufual quantity of yellow weeds infeft the greateft part ot" 

 the arable fields this feafon, which from the llrong drought, will 

 prove pernicious to the fcveral grains with xvhich fuch fields are 

 occupied. Even the clays are full of them. Perhaps their ir-' 

 creafe is owing to the wemefs of lafl: Summer, and the repeated 

 black frofls nhich prevailed from December to March. The 

 ilrongf ft foil was thereby loofed to fuch a degree, as enabled the 

 fteds of thefe weeds at once to vegetate, after the ground was 

 reduced by the harrow in ths Spiirg months. J^^^'e 32. 



Kxtract of a Letter frqin a Gentleman in the nelglbourhaod of 



Perth, dated June 28. ' <:''-?■■: n 



V The wheats in this diftrifl: are eencrallv confi.lered as a light 

 crop, and rather more backward than ufual. I'he oat crop up- 

 on wet foils has failed much •, and, in fame olaces, the grub-worm 

 has done a good deal of irjjry where the ground is dry : oat* 

 are tolerably good. The growth of barley is not fo far advanced 

 as to ;idmit the foiming of a ^recife op'nion refpec^ling that crop, 

 efpecially upon llrong foils. Beans appear to be a fcanty crop 



1 he markets are net well fupplied with grain ; indeed, ws have 

 little or none, but what is brought from aboid. The price of 

 oat meal is y. 2d., and barley 2s. per peck, of 81b. Dutch weight 

 Bread is not fold in this county by the quartern loaf, as the^ 

 weight varies according to the markets, but not the price. Hay 

 is IS. 6d. per ftone of 22'ib.-, and as to the wool, 1 have not, been 

 able to learn, with any degree of certainty, the different prices, as 

 the Iheep are but newly (horn. 



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