4S8 Postscyipt ta ^cots tntetligence, Oct* 



Postscript to scots intelligence. 



Extrac! of a Letter from Haddingtotiy 09. 1 7, 



The demand for wheat was briflcer than for fome days pafl, and 

 the averasre price advanced confiderably. Very h'ttle old wheat re- 

 jnains on hand ; and what is prefented, is of miferable quality. 



Barley was rather dull ; but oats fold fully better than at lad 

 market. Peas and beans likewife advanced. Our fupply of oats 

 and peas has been fcanty for fome time pail. 



Since Tuefday, the weather has been very fine and drj^, which has 

 allowed the remainder of the crop to be brought in in fafety to the 

 ftack-yard. A good deal of wheat has been fown this week ; and 

 if the favourable weather continues eight days longer, the greateft 

 part of the wheat feed in this county will be got finiflaed. 



As an inllance of the attention now paid to ftock in this county, 

 one of our mofl: refpetlable farmers lately purchafed a lot of breed- 

 ing ewes, at a fale in Berwicklhire, at five guineas per head ; whicli, 

 we hope, will be the means of exciting a more general attention to 

 that mode of huibandry, than hitherto has been-cul^omary in this 

 diftria. 



to the conductors of the farmea.'s magazine. 



Gentlemen, 



If you have a fpare corner in the Magazine, pleafe give a place 

 to the annexed extraft of a letter, lately received from an eminenii 

 foreign political writer, who made a tour through Scotland la!' 

 Summer ; and oblige yours, &c. 



yi Friend to the Magazine. 



" One of onr firfl cares, after arriving in Edinburgh, was to pro- 

 vide ourfelves with the twofiril numbers of the Farmer's Magazine- 

 We have already perufed them ; and all I have to tell you about it- 

 is, that we unanimoufly range fuch publications amongft the prin- 

 cipal caufes of the aftive fpirit of improvement tliat pervades this 

 ifland, and particularly this part of North Britain. We all agree 

 upon the general fuperiorlty of the Britiih Agriculture, over that of 

 the Continent ; but it is not fo eafy to agree upon the caufes ; for 

 they are fo numerous and complicated, that they might well furnifli 

 matter for a very comprehcnfive work." 



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