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of Scotland,, ranking Bute and Arran as one^ and 

 Orkney and Shetland as another. 



In wheat (of which Shetland had 3 acres), Fife and 

 Perth were a long way a-head^ and Forfarshire third ; 

 and in barley the same counties came to the fore, 

 but Forfarshire had second place. Aberdeenshire 

 was an easy first in oats (165,275 acres), Perthshire 

 and Ayrshire close together, while Lanarkshire well 

 up. In rye, Fife was first, and Elgin second ; and 

 in bere the struggle was a close one between Aberdeen 

 and Orkney, while Caithness and Argyllshire were far 

 behind. Stirlingshire, Perthshire, Fifeshire, and 

 Ayrshire, in order, were the only ones which exceeded 

 3,000 acres in beans, and Berwickshire and Aberdeen- 

 shire had it respectively in peas and tares. The latter 

 county was some 50,000 acres a-head, in turnips, of 

 Forfarshire and Perthshire, which made a very close 

 race of it for second, while Berwickshire, Roxburgh- 

 shire, and Dumfriesshire finished well up. Perthshire 

 and Fifeshire had nothing near them for potatoes ; 

 Ayrshire beat Wigtownshire in mangolds ; and Wig- 

 townshire returned the compliment in carrots. Ayr- 

 shire (1), Lanarkshire (2) was the cabbage return ; 

 Dumfriesshire was first for rape, and Fifeshire for 

 summer fallow ; and for grass and hay under rotation, 

 "the Ayes had it," or rather Aberdeenshire and Ayr- 

 shire. These returns were, of course, subject to the 

 absolute acreage ; and when the proportional acreage 

 is taken into account, Haddingtonshire is first for 

 wheat and barley, Caithness for oatSj Orkney for rye 



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