361 Obituary . July iZoo* 



A correfpondent in Berwickfhire, to whom we applied for in- 

 formation refpe£ling Mr Hall's agricultural operations, fays, " Be- 

 fore my arrival in this county, Mr Hall was become very old, and 

 in a great meafure incapable of attending to agricultural affairs. I 

 have been told, and I believe with truth, that lus purfuits in that 

 line were extremely injurious to his fortune *, and that he farmed a- 

 way a great part of a fine cftate. I fliould rather hold him up as 

 a terror to gentlemen againft beco;ning farmers, than as an example 

 for their imitation — I mean in farming. Some very good hedge 

 management was praftifed on his eftate, but by no means regularly 

 followed out. I have feen the fame, a kind of balkct-work plufti- 

 ing in England. He had tolerable notions about lining out roads, 

 but was almoft always oppofed by the other gentry j fo that his 

 ideas, if good, were feldom, if ever, carried into execution." 



Mr J)avid Cooper, farmer at Clarey, county of Wigton, much 

 regreted. 



Peter Dudgeon, Efq. of Eaft Craig, farmer at Byres, county of 

 Eaft Lothian, an extenfive and fkilful grazier. 



The following particulars concerning this gentleman, are extraft- 

 ed from the 2d volume of Wight's *' Present State of Husbandry 

 in iS<ro//flW," publilhed in 1778. 



*' Peter Dudgeon, tenant at Byres, has a great character in that 

 country, for ikill both in corn and grafs. I would be reproached 

 by our bretheren, if fo eminent a cultivator and grazier were not 

 particularly taken notice of. He rents icoo acies from the Earl 

 of Hopetoun, and about 800 from othefs, by his own account, for 

 which he pays about 1600I. Sterling of rent. Mr Dudgeon is held 

 to be the befl grazier in this county. He has commonly 1400 

 acres under grafs, and knows how to improve his flock as well as 

 his land. His chief rule is that of flocking lighly, to afford at all 

 leafons plenty of food. And> by the thriving of the flock, the 

 land is alfo improved.'' 



At Newton, near Barniftone, Yorkfhire, aged 90, Mr Francis 

 Ellerton, an eminent farmer. He was carried to his grave by eight 

 grandfons, and attended by twenty nephews. 



At Barran upon Trent, Derbyfhire, Mr Jofeph Sharpe, farmer 5 

 who fell into a ditch in his own grounds, and was drowned. 



At Adney, near Newport, bhropfhire, aged 83, Mr Leverfage, 

 a very refpeftable farmer. 



At Broughton, NorthamptonOiire, Mr John Waters fcnior, an 

 eminent falefman, and dealer in cattle. 



At Lenham, Kent, aged 77, Mr Robert Mercer, a wealthy and 

 Tefpe6lable farmer. 





