472 ^gricullitral Intelligence — Scotland. OiX, 



is all cut ('own ; though, on fcvcral farms, a confiderable quantity 

 remains in the ilock. Shearers were very fcarce during the throng 

 of harvell, which occafioned wages to rife to 2s. 6d. per day, be- 

 fidcs maintenance. 



Giftord Autumn fair, on Tuefday, waa well fupplied with cat- 

 tle, generally in good order. A number of purchafes were made, 

 though a confiderable quantity were driven home unfold. Prices 

 may be rated at from 73. to 8s. per Itone, finking the offal. The 

 fhe\.' of horfes was indeed indifferent, and few ilieep were fold. 



At our market this day, the prices were as follows : — Wheat, 

 which, in general, is of excellent quahty, but dump from the 

 wetntfs of the weather, from 35s. to 543.; barley, from 34s. to 

 41S. ; and oats, which, upon the wliole, are only tolerable, from 

 26s. to 34s. — all per Linlithgow boll. 



At a meeting of heritors of the pariHi of Prefton, in this coun- 

 ty, September 2d, a report, from the committee apponited laft 

 "Winter, to conducl the fale of meal to the poor at reduced rates, 

 ■was laid before them. From the report it appeared, that 128 fa- 

 milies had been regularly fupplied with ;r,£al, at prices verj^ little 

 higher than thofe of ordinary feafons ; and that coals had been fur- 

 niihed to the moft necefiitous poor, free ofallexpence, during the 

 laft inclement Winter ; Alfo, that the fum of 7 3 81. 8s. 4d. had 

 been expended by the committee, in the purchafe of grain, for 

 which, after being manufactured into meal, 387'. 15s. 6'd. had 

 been received. The heritors approved the faid report, and directed 

 that a piece of plate ffiuuld be preieated to one of the members of 

 the Kirk-feffion, who had taken extraordinary trouble in conduct- 

 ing the bufinefs. 



Mld-Lothinn garter ly Report, from July ist, to Septetuher 



2,0th, inclusive. 



The intenfe drought, remarked in the report for the preceding 

 quai'ter, has continued, with little intermlffion, during alm.oll the 

 ■whole of this, there having been no iliowers, to any effeft, till a- 

 bout the 5th of September, when rain, preceded by two or three 

 days fog, fet in, and continued for four or five days together, which 

 did indeed fome damage to fuch corns as were then cut in the fields; 

 but, on the other hand, was highly beneficial to the pallurcs, and 

 to the potato-crop, both of whicfi had declined greatly ; alfo to 

 the aftermath of the hay, which, till then, was altogether at a ftand. 

 In the end of July, and beginning of Augull, the weather was 

 uncommonly warm, which, conjoined with tlic exifting drought, 

 had the effect to bring on the harvell much fcjncr than was ex- 



peded, 



