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for, being a native of a warm climate, it requires a hot fun to bring 

 it to perfeciion, and confequently the wheat of this crop is of a re- 

 markably fmc quality. The thick fet woolly-eared kind, which, lall 

 feafon, owing to its retaining mugh moiilure about the ear, was more 

 defediive than the kinds with thin fet ears and fmooth chaff, is this 

 year reckoned fiiperior, and, in the general run of feafons, will be 

 found to be the rnoft produftive of the two, and beft fuited to the 

 foil and dry climate of Ealt Lothian. But although the wheat, this 

 year, is of the belt quality, it is thin upon the ground, owing to the 

 bad tilth of the foil, occahoned by its being drenched in moiilure lall 

 feafon, and the fevcre droughts fucceeding in this, which rendered 

 t!)e foil fo hard, as completely to prevent the plants from tillering. 

 When therefore we take into confideration the Imallquantity of wheat 

 fown, its thinnefs on the ground, and deficiency of bulk in the barn- 

 yards, we are of opinion, that the crop of this year will fall far fliort 

 of the produce of an ordinary year. 



The crop of barley is extremely various. On fome damp free 

 foils, it is a middling good crop ; on dry bottoms, and on flrong 

 lands, indifferent ; and on the lands that were much ploughed in 

 the Spring, or late of fowing, it is moft wretched. The quality 

 of this grain, on the flrong foih that were early fown, is fine, as 

 alio on the free dry foils, if not prematurely ripened" with the 

 drought ; but the quality of late-fown barleys, that were not ripe 

 \vlicii the wet weather fet in, will prove very indifferent. Upon 

 the whole, the crop of this grain may be eileemed below medio- 

 crity. Beans are not half a crop, fhort in the ftraw, thin on the 

 ground, and not well podded. They were much hurt by an in- 

 i'ca: that covered the leaves and upper part of the flem, in the 

 fud of Sum.mer and beginning of Harvefl, and have alfo fuflained 

 damage from the wet weather, having been moflly cut when it 

 came on. The oats in lad Lothian, this feafon, are certainly 

 the worft crop ever remembered by the hufbandman ; fhort in the 

 ftraw, thin on the ground, and of a wretched quality ; the grains 

 being fmall, hufl<y, and long-tailed : and to all appearance, as 

 well as from llic trials that have been adlually made, on an aver- 

 age, they will not produce above fourteen pecks of meal per boll. 

 The ears of this grain, in moft fields, during the month of Au- 

 jjuil, were covered with dark-coloured infecis, which clung in 

 numbers about each grain, and probably hurt the crop, though 

 their depredations were not apparent. In a field after Summer 

 fallow, on a clay foil, the following uncommon occurrence was ob- 

 lei ved. Tlie crop looked well in the early part of Summer ; but 

 in the month of Jnly, when eight or ten vigorous ftems, from fix 

 to eight inches long, had pufl.ed out from one feed, a great num- 

 ber of ihcfc vigoroiis plants were noticed going into decay. Up- 



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