88 Additional Informalion. 



SCOTLAND.* 



The expense of preparing an acre of land for either wheat, barley, or neeps, must 

 depend on the state of the ground and local situation ; for instance, poor land re- 

 quires a greater quantity of manure, and the carriage to ground at a distance from, 

 it, is great. But the same quantity of dung, suppose one ton, in 1790 cost is. 6d. 

 here, it now costs 55. and sometimes more. 



The quantity of lime that cost in 1790 Ss. gd. now is 135. 6d. 



A mounted plough now costs ,^3. los. 



A cart, with iron axle, for one horse, costs £"12. to £"12. i2S. 



This place being near the great works of Carron, and in the centre of several large 

 collieries, labour has for a long time been high. The charge of preparing one acre, 

 Scots measure, for wheat, at one mile distance from this town, will astonish every 

 one but a practical farmer. A note of preparing an acre, in but a moderate way, 

 is below stated : 



Two years rent, allowing the land to be fallowed k - 



Interest for one year's rent - - ^- 



Fifty carts of dung, drawn by one horse, at 55. 



Carriage of ditto, at i8(/. _ _ - 



Five chaldrons of lime, at 13s. 6d. 



Carriage of ditto _ - _ _ 



Five ploughings and harrowings, at 125. 



Spreading lime and dung _ _ _ 



Spade work in cleaning furrows, &c. 



C30 13 lo 



N. B. The quantity of lime is too small, notwithstanding the expense of prepar. 

 ing one acre for wlieat is £^0. i^s. lod. besides seed and public taxes. And to 

 do it for barley would be the same, except one year's rent, as they could be sown 

 •without fallow. 



• County and name wanting. 



