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ter, of which there never was fuch a fcarcity ; four times the iifual 

 price is offered for wintering cattle with flraw. Butcher-meat fells 

 Irom 3d. to 4d. per lib. and beaits iu condition meet with a market 

 in proportion to thefe prices ; but tor lean, and young cattle, with. 



which we are far ovenloclced, we have no demand. -Sepienwer 



29. 1800. 



ArgyleJIjire Quarterly Report, 



From the coldnefs of the Spring, and the great drought of the 

 Summer, our corn-crops this year are not fo bulky as ufual. But 

 ' what is wanting in ftraw, is more than made up in grain ; fo that, 

 upon the whole, the crop may^be confidercd as a good one, and 

 more than fufficlent to ferve the count}^, if much of the bear be not 

 cliftilled. As we had no rain till the 20th of September, all the 

 bear, and about half the oat crop, was got In before the weather 

 broke. From the fcarcity of water for grinding (a very uncommon 

 thing In this county) little of the grain has been manufactured till 

 within thefe ten days, in which time bear-meal has fallen from 2od. 

 to I4d. the peck, and oaten meal fromi 33. to is. lod. 



The potato crop is of an excellent quality ; firm and dry, but in 

 moil foils not fo large and numerous as ufual. Few of the pota- 

 toes have yet been dug or fent to market. At Campbeltown, they 

 fell at a {hilling the peck. At Inverary, the Duke of Argyle, 

 who raifes large quantities, fells tlicm at the low price of formtM: 

 years. 



As the cattle were low in Spring, and the grafs iate of fpring- 

 jng up, the quantity pf butter and cheefe made, is lefs than ufuaJ. 

 Butter fells at i4d. and cheefe at ^d. the lib. Butcher-meat from 

 4d. to 5d. where it is fold by weight ; but, through the county in 

 general, cows and fheep are bought whole and alive. There is little 

 •demand for fat qattle, and it is thought they mud: be fold much 

 lower than for fome years paft. Sheep farmers, v/ho fold their wed- 

 ders early, got nearly the price of laft j-ear, a little under or over 20s. 

 But thofe who were latt of felling, made a worfe market. Wool 

 has fold confiderably higher than laft year ; a great part of it about 

 8s. the ftone. 



The quantity of herrings taken this feafon on the coaft of this 

 county (which commonly makes a confiderable part of its revenue) 

 has not yet been fo confideiable as for fome years paft ; nor arc the 

 laft accounts from the herrlng-bufTes that have gone to the Nor'.h 

 Ifles, fo flattering as could be wiiiied. But as the moft of the fifli 

 is commonly taken after this time, there is yet no reafon to defpair 

 of a good fiftiing. The herrings, fold frefli along the coaft, have 

 been generally about 3s. a hundred. 



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