iSoO. Agricultural Intelligence — Scotland. 47^ 



• Wheat fold in Haddington market, from Oftober r. 1799 to 

 Oftober I. 1800 — 16,441 bulls. Oat-meal in Edinburgh market, 

 in the fame period-^ Lothian 10,149, iiouth Country 125 ; in all 

 10,274 bolls. 



Fife ^arferly Report. 



During July, Auguft, and the beginning of September, almoft 

 no rain fell. Dry weather, for fo long a period^ is not remembered 

 by any perfon. The hay, in confequence, is leis than half a crop ; 

 the after-growth, nothing : for it, as well as the paftures, were en- 

 tirely burnt up, brown and withered, and nothing green and luxu- 

 riant, except natural meadow, and inferior wet paitures ; for fuch, 

 the feafon was a good one. 



The oats, in general, are a thin crop ; partly owing, it is fup- 

 pofed, to the feed being injured, and a wet feed-time. They are 

 well filled and ripened, but almofl. no ftraw, owing to the extreme 

 drought. 



Barley, a better crop in general, grain plump and good : but as 

 inuch of it was arrefted in the flioot-blade for want of rain, the; 

 ftraw is fhort, and the ftalks of a much fmaller fize than the farmers 

 expefted from the appearance before cutting. 



Wheat, a thin crop, good grain, but little ftraw. 



Beans, a poor crop in general. 



Peas, a better crop, extremely well filled, but the ftraw ftiort. 



Flax, a good crop, where the foil was properly chofen for that 

 plant. The flax-feed faved, thebeft in quality fcen for many years : 

 the dry feafon being particularly fiivourable, much more feed is 

 faved than ufual in this county. 



Potatoes, entirely flinted in their growth for want of lain ; the 

 plants dwarfilh, and did not cover the ground ; and, confequent- 

 ly, an unprodudive crop, ripened prematurely. Perhaps owing to 

 this, a phasnomenon in that crop has been obferved this Summer, 

 viz. the few potatoes at the root pufhing out ftems at the eyes, in 

 the fame way as fets planted in Spring ; and new potatoes, of the 

 Hze of peas, forming on thefe ftems in great numbers, drawing their 

 nourifliment from thofe fir{t formed, and probably injuring them 

 materially. When rain at laft fell in fufficient quantity to reftore 

 verdure to the paftures, (middle of September), the potatoes began 

 to grow with vigour ; the roots increafed in fize to a great degree, 

 and the (hoots from the eyes are not obferved in fuch numbers ; at 

 lea ', no new ones appear. Upon the whole, however, the potatoes 

 cannot be reckoned at above half a crop. 



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