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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



SALE OF CROPS ON THE GROUND IN SCOTLAND. 



Americans often wonder at the quantity and cost of manure and of labor ap- 

 plied to land in England and Scotland, and are at a loss to know how it is that 

 lands should rent there for more than would buy the fee simple of what we call 

 middling land in the United States. 



The following authentic accounts of sales of standing or growing crops there,, 

 as reported in a late number of the " Mark-Lane Express," will go far to unravel 

 the mystery and dispel doubt for those who have not inquired or reflected on the 

 subject. The probability is that these Wheat crops averaged from 30 to 50 bush- 

 els to the acre, Oats 60 or 70, and Potatoes not less than 400. 



Who can tell what may be done in our country when recourse has been had, 

 m like manner, to the accumulation of great quantities of manure, to thorough- 

 draining, and to perfect tillage — all according to the true principles of Agricul- 

 ture, as ascertained by scientific investigation and practice, and as detailed from 

 month to month in this " Farmers' Library." [Let the reader allow $5 for ev- 

 ery £1 sterling.] 



Sat.e of Growing Crops at Perth. — On 

 Thursday se'niiight there were sold, by public 

 roup, at the Home Farm of Cadder, about 

 Beventy acres, imperial measure, of growing 

 crop. The wheat was almost ready for the 

 sickle, and some of the oats were partly cut 

 down. We saw several very large potatoes, 

 which were pulled up by some of the farm- 

 ers present, who pronounced them iVee from 

 disease. The turnips also were forward, and 

 looked healthy. The following are the aver- 

 age prices of the sale : Potatoes, from £28 5s. 

 to £37 10s. per imperial acre; S. turnips, 

 from £10 10s. to £11 15s. ditto; Y. turnips, 

 from £9 5s. to £11 ditto; oats, from £9 10s. 

 to £10 12s. ditto; wheat, from £10 10s. to 

 £11 148. ditto. [WiUiess. 



Sale ok Crops at Ayr. — The sales of crop 

 this year in our neighborhood have been well 

 attended, and brought excellent prices. At 

 Macnairston, wheat averaged £11 per Scotch 

 acre, turnips £16; and at Friarland, beans 

 from £10 to £12 15s. At Thornbrock, par- 

 ish of Maybole, middling oats brought from 

 £6 to £9; at Broadshean, £5 to £7; at 

 West Enoch, £0 to £8 ; and, at Mackailston, 

 potatoes brought upward of £40. Hay, in 

 general, has also sold well, especially mead- 

 ow, which is sought after for winter fodder. 

 The above quotations are from a few of the 

 last of the numerous sales conducted by Mr. 

 Mitchell, auctioneer, Maybole, this year. 



[Ajt Advertiser. 



Sale of Crops at Dumfries. — Last week 

 we stated that oats had been sold at Comlon- 

 gan Mains at £13 10s. per imperial acre. — 

 We have been made aware of higher figures 

 since, although only in two instimces. At 

 Mr. ^Villiamson's sale, Main of Friars Carse, 

 early Angus-shire oats sold at £13 17s., and 

 potatoes at £ 12, making an average of twelva 

 guineas [$60] over 17 acres. On Stapleton, 

 on the 16th, Messrs. Farish and Brand, as 

 agents, sold 114 acres of standing corn. The 

 domain w^as necessarily divided into a num- 

 ber of lots, the highest of which actually real- 

 ized £14 5s. [$61] the imperial, or pretty 

 nearly £18 the Scotch, acre. Having exam- 

 ined a small sample of the grain, we consider 

 it among, if not, the very finest that ever was 

 shown in any market, [Dumfries Cour. 



The Fruit Crop on the Rhine. — " In the 

 memory of man," says a letter dated Wies- 

 baden, the 23d ult., " the crops were never 

 so abundant as this year in our country. All 

 the trees are overloaded with fniit, and we 

 cannot procure a sufficient quantity of stakes 

 to support the branches. The Government 

 has ordered the Administration of the Forests 

 to provide a supply for the formers and horti- 

 culturists, and no less than 80,000 have been 

 already demanded. Apples are particularly 

 abundant. The English have purchased an 

 enormous quantity of that fniit, which is to 

 be embarked in steamers for London." 



Renovation OF Manuscripts. — Take a hair pencil and wash the part which has been 

 effaced with a solution of prussiate of potash in water, and the writing will again appear, if 

 the paper has not been destroyed. 

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