45 i Jigr'tcultural Intelligence — Scctlatid. 06^. 



Since writing the above, I hear that barley has been this day fold 

 fo high as 42s. per boll. 



Extract of a Letter from n Gentleman in Strathern, Perthjlnrey 



September 22, 



Strathern has, this feafon, been particularly fubje(5l to the efFe(^3 

 of the more than ufual drought; therefore, our crops cannot be call- 

 ed good. The failure is chiefly felt in barley. Peas and beans, for 

 the mod part, have not fo much ilraw as ufual, but plenty of good 

 pods. Oats are very fliort, the ear pretty well, and the grain of a 

 good quality. Some, of an early variety, which had been manufac- 

 tured, yielded not much lefs than meal for corn at the mill. Our 

 wheat turns out better than was expcded. Tlie oats were lately 

 much burdened with a black. infe6l ; but I do not find that much 

 harm is thereby fuitained. About the beginning of Summer they 

 were feverely cut up by tl;e grub-worm ; but afterwards, three or 

 four ftalks fprung up from thofe apparently deilroyed ; and fuch 

 parts have turned out the beft crop. 



Turnips have, in a great meafure, failed ; though there are fomc 

 good Iklds here. The paftures were reduced to dreary wafles dur- 

 ing the long drought, but now begin to prefent the hue of Spring. 

 Our h?-y-crop has proved very fcanty ; and, with the little Ilraw 

 which this year's crop affords, makes me earneltly hope for a fa- 

 vourable Winter ; tlie I do not know what will be done with our 



flock. 



I cannot fay much about the price of grain ; but I lately bought 

 fome old oats, at Perth, for which I paid 32s. Wheat is 55s.; hay 

 2od. per ftone ; and oat-ftraw is. Cattle fold pretty well at Fal- 

 kirk Autumn tryft ; but the preceding markets in our neighbour- 

 hood were dull and low. 



ExtraB of a Letter from a Gentleman in the South-Eafl Corner of 

 Bernuicljlnre^ September 2 2« 



I have lately had occafion to travel through Northumberland, 

 Durham, and part of YorkP.iire ; and fuch obfervations as occurred, 

 thrown together as rccolleAion, amid the hurry of harveft-work, ad- 

 mits, are much at your fervice. I left Berwickihire in the end of 

 Auguft, fome time after harveft was begun here, and returned on 

 the I2ih of September, after an abfence of nearly three weeks. 



I did not find the harveft a bit farther advanced, than on 

 this fide Tweed, all the way to tlie vale of Tees, which divides 



Durhami 



