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TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



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ESS. LXXVII. 



Acreage under Crops and Grasses in the Parish 

 of Shotts, County of Lanarkshire. 



* Board of Agriculture Note. — "Returns of the area under mountain and 

 heath land used for grazing were not collected in 1867, and as the returns 

 generally, especially the areas under grass, may not have been so accurate in 

 the earlier years as at present, comparison over so long a period should only 

 be made with caution." 



Rainfall statistics for the parish are not available, except 

 for the district of Hillend Reservoir. But the following 

 table, made up from " The Mean Annual Rainfall of Scot- 

 land," 1871-1910, by A. Watt, M.A., F.R.S.E., gives statistics 



