156 HIGHLAND AND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



account thereof, containing a specification of the various 

 particulars pointed out in the Society's advertisement. 



Sheep Drains. 



In 18 1 5, premiums were offered to the tenants in 

 specified counties who should, by a fixed period, make the 

 greatest number of roods of sheep drains on their farms, 

 at their own expense. The first awards were made 

 in 1 8 17, when £21 were voted to James Brydon, Glen- 

 dinning, Dumfriesshire ; and a like sum, to Mr Moffat, 

 Craik, Selkirkshire. In 1820, a sum of fifteen guineas was 

 voted to Thomas Rac, Hazleside Mains, Windrow, and 

 Stoneburn, Stirling and Dumbartonshires ; and in 1821, a 

 sum of £"/ 17s. 6d. to John Hope, Normangill, Crawford, 

 Lanarkshire. 



Improving the quality of Grain. 



In 1 8 16, a sum of £21 was voted to John Brodie of 

 Scougall, East Lothian, for the greatest extent of ground 

 under drilled wheat, crop 1815. In 1818, ;^2i were awarded 

 to William Crichton, New Mill, for raising barley of the 

 greatest weight of any person within the district of Dunkeld, 

 crop 1818 ; and, at the same time, a sum often guineas to 

 Geo. M'Ritchic, Laighwood, for raising barley next in weight. 

 In 18 18, there was also voted to Walter Ross of Nigg a sum 

 of ;^2i for raising, on the farm of Reeds, barley of the 

 greatest weight of any person in a district of Ross and Cro- 

 marty, comprehending the parishes of Cromarty, Resolis, 

 Rosemarkie, Avoch, and Kilmuir Wester, crop 1818. In 

 1820, there was awarded to John Yuile, Wester Blairgort, a 

 sum of ten guineas, for raising barley of the greatest weight, 

 crop 1820, of any person in a district of Dumbarton, 

 Stirling, and Perthshires. In 1822, John Lawson, Old 

 Mills, Elgin, was awarded ^21 for the greatest extent of 

 ground under drilled wheat in the counties of Moray, 

 Nairn, Inverness, Ross, and Cromarty, crop 1821. In the 

 same year, fifteen guineas were voted to John Watt, Nether 

 Cluny, Mortlach, Banffshire, for raising bere or bigg, of 

 great weight, of crop 1822, in that district. At the same 



