304 PROFESSOR FORBES ON THE CLIMATE OF EDINBURGH. 
72. I decided to use the price of oats in the Edinburgh market as the fairest 
test of the state of the harvest, being at once the most abundant crop, and the 
one least likely to be affected by foreign importations and by fiscal enactments. 
In this view I was confirmed by two eminent agricultural authorities. 
73. To Mr Charles Lawson I am indebted for a table of the average price of 
‘oats of first and second quality, in the Edinburgh market for each year from 1795 
to 1850 inclusive (with the exception of the year 1805). The following Table 
contains the prices of the first quality, in chronological order, and the differences 
+or— (neglecting fractions of a penny) from the mean of the whole, which is 
18s. 11d. per boll of six bushels :— 
TABLE XIV.—Suowine THE PRICE OF OaTs (FIRST QUALITY) IN THE EDINBURGH MARKET, 
PER BoLL OF S1X BUSHELS, FROM 1795 TO 1850 INCLUSIVE. 


















Difference Difference Difference 
from Mean. from Mean. from Mean, 
ce a srry af s. d. | si ds ad; 
1795 LOG + 0° 7 1814 18 8 |— 0° 8 || 18338 13 6 — 5° 5 
1796 Lar: a All| 1815 14 3 |— 38) 18384 la” 0 — sill 
1797 13 «6 — 55 1816 Jo: lil + 7° 0 1835 15°) (Oa SeSerel 
1798 14 0O — 411 1817 23.100 + 4° 1 1836 20.9 + 110 
1799 29 4 +10: 6 1818 25 O + 4° 1 1837 15 74 |— 3 4 
1800 535 ae +14: 3 1819 17 “6 — 1°45 1838 ZO BS AL 
1801 1G NG — 2°56 1820 16, 0 ie 1839 LS etaG — 05 
1802 15 6 — 3°95 1821 15 4 — 37 1840 14 74)/— 44 
1803 Le eG — 1°65 1822 15 0 — 31l 1841 14 74|);— 44 
1804 18 6 — 0:5 18238 20 9 ap 4 1842 14 3 — 4 8 
1805 bite 1824 Ie WO Noe heal 1843 15 9 — 32 
1806 20 0 te Alo It 1825 18 4 — 0:7 1844 67 3 — 2° 8 
1807 Oe a + 8 1 1826 Zo 9 + 610 1845 20 0 Pala 
1868 24 0 = Ee ae 1827 Vie Oi shot 1846 26 3 5 go a 
1809 De). tg) +10:10 1828 18" 6 — 0°45 1847 18 13 |— 010 
1810 180 — O11 1829 163 — 2:8 1848 14 3 — 4 8 
1811 Qa w0 + 4 1 1830 20 0O tte eal 1849 12> 3) |. =hGa8 
1812 él 6 12° 7 1831 lt .6 — 1:5 1850 13 6 — do 5 
1813 216 Se Qe] 1832 | oO i see 
| | Average, 18 11 




74. The next Table shows the seasons arranged according to the dearness of 
oats, or the reverse. 
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