476 Agricultural Intelligence — Scotland. OSt^ 



"jth Ociiiher. — The harvell not finiflicd, and rain almofl: every day» 

 fucceeded by drying winds ; fo that little inj^jry to the crop has yet 

 happened. Harvell began to be general about ill September ; and 

 two thirds of the crop is now well got in ; tliough on fome farma 

 part of it is not yet fully ripe. 



A famine for cattle is dreaded, from tlie fcarcity of draw. The 

 price of corn in the llraw exorbitant. But it is fuppofed, if tlie 

 weather is tolerable, the fame calamity to man is not likely to 

 happen. 



Turnips, owing to a total Want of rain, are a very poor crop, not 

 even equal to half a crop in fome feafons ; which adds to the diffi- 

 culty of maintaining Winter flock. 



The graziers complain of heavy lofTes from the failure of the paf- 

 ture grafs. Many have loii njot lefs than the whole rent. 



Fat Hock fells well ; but, wherewith can the farmer fatten, when 

 tuinips, potatoes, hay, and ftraw, have all failed him ? 



Hay IS. 6d. per ilone, and can only with difficulty be got. 



.Prices cf Victual. 



in this couuty, very little, except foreign viftual, was to be found 

 all this quarter. No oats, no barley, no peas. Old wheat, a fmali 

 quantity in Auguft, price 40s. to 5 55. per boll. 



Oat-meal in July, from imported corn, 52s. per boll. 



End of Auguft, fell to 34s arid continues at ditto. 



Barley-meal, in July, 34s. per boll. 



Ditto, end of Auguft, 233. 4d. per ditto, and continues the 

 fame. 



No old peas-mcul at any price. 



Ne^jj Crop.' 



Wheat, on ift Oflober, from 40s. to ^os. per boll, 

 "Barley, fine quality, at 33s. per ditto. 

 No new oats as yet. 

 ■ A little new oat-meal, at 34s. per boll. 



Extract of a Lcllcr from a Farmer hi the Upper Ward of Lanark-- 



fl:ire, Oa. 6. 



Our crops here are ;r,oftly got into the ftack-yard, and they 

 promife to yield well. Oats, when mealed, produce nearly meal 

 for corn, and barley 24 or 25 pecks per boll. In the muir-lands, 

 they were laft vi'eek little more than begun to cut, and their crops 

 are thin upon the ground, much bad feed having been fown. 

 There is but a fmall extent of wheat and peas fown in this diftrift ; 



but 



