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much under the above. I can fay nothing at prefent as to the price 

 of new grain, no market being as yet fairly opened. Oat-meal 2s. 

 per peck j the quartern loaf is is. 34d. 



Extract of a Letter from the fame Gentleman^ OBoher 6. 



I now fend you a note of prices in Perth market on the 3d in- 

 ftant, although as yet no very great quantity of grain has been of- 

 ferred for fale. 



Wheat, 40s. to 43s. 6d. per Beef, 4d. to ^~d. per lb. Dutch 



boll. weight. 



Barley, 30s. to 36s. per ditto. Mutton, 3d. to 4d. per ditto. 



Oats, none in market. Lamb, 4d. per ditto. 



Oat-meal, 2s. 2d. per peck. Butter, is. 6d. to is. yd. per lb. 



Barley-meal, is. 6d. per ditto. Tron weight. 



Potatoes, IS. 8d. per peck of Eggs, 9d. per dozen. 



32 lb. Hay, IS. 8d. per ftone. 



The Quartern loaf, is. 3|d. Oat-ftraw, is. per ditto. 



In laft week's newfpaper, I obferved a ftrange refolution amongft 

 the good people in Edinburgh, refpedling butter. Although I am 

 a great enemy to all fuch as demand extra profits on any article, in 

 particular fuch a neceffary of life as butter is ; yet 1 am forry to 

 hear of any plan formed not to ufe this article. It muft be evident 

 to every perfon, in any degree capable of forming an opinion on 

 the fubjeft, that butter cannot be afforded this feafon for a price 

 ihort of double the ordinary rate ; otherwife thofe who furniih it 

 mull be foon ruined. I mention this only by the by, and beg you 

 .would take fome notice of it in your next Number, The remarks 

 I made in my lall, on the crop, I can now confirm, having thrarti- 

 ed part of my wheat, barley, and oats. The two firft are of excellent 

 quality, but the laft vaftly inferior. What of the oats I have had 

 at the mill, has taken fix firlots to bring one boll of meal : and I am 

 forry to hear of even lefs returns than that. For about ten days 

 prior to the 3d current, we had very indifferent harveft-weather — - 

 rains every other day, and yet no material damage done. We have 

 now again fine dry weather, which I hope will continue for fome 

 days. There is now a confiderable degree of vegetation in the 

 ground ; and our pafture-fields greener than in June. No doubt, 

 the quality of the grafs is valtly inferior to what grows in Sum- 

 mer ; but ftill it will prove of great benefit to the bellial, and fave 

 what little fodder there is till Wiuter. Had we not been blelfcd 

 with fuch mild weather, the profpeft for Winter-forage would have 

 been melancholy indeed. I am glad to add, that our potato-crop 

 has greatly mcodcd of late, and that turnips arc ftill improving faft» 



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