106 Agriculture of Scotland. 



1184-94. Acres. 1837. Acres. 



Oats 7,820 Oats 7,044 



Barley 3,260 Barley 4,624 



Wheat 1,440 Wheat 2,820* 



Pease 1,480 Clover and pasture . 13,249 



Clover ...... 3,500 including 2,600 hay. 



Fallow . . ... 1,750 Turnips 6.000 



Turnips, &c. . . . . 1,750 Fallow 700 



Potatoes and beans . 544 



21,000 



34,981 



But from the system of repeated corn-crops^ which distinguished 

 the former period^ the near approach of the extent of surface in 

 corn does not seem to exhibit so great a disproportion^ at first 

 sights as might have been apprehended ; and it is only when an 

 estimate of the value of the produce of the two periods is exhibited 

 that a just conclusion is arrived at^ thus : — 



Acres. 1784-94. £. 



7,820 Oats, 30 bushels per acre, at 3^ 35,190 



3,260 Barley, 26 „ „ 4^... .16,952 



1,440 Wheat, 18 „ „ 6^.... 7,776 



1,480 Pease, 10 „ „ bs 3,700 



3,500 Clover at 4/. per acre 14,000 



1,750 Turnips, &c. 41. „ 7,000 



^84,618 



Acres. 1837. £. 



7,044 Oats, 40 bushels per acre, at 3^ 42,264 



4,624 Barlev, 36 „ „ 4^ 33,292 



2 , 820 Wheat, 24 „ „ 6^ 20 , 302 



2,600 Clover at 6/. per acre 15,600 



10,695 Pasture 21. Ws. „ 26,622 



6,000 Turnips ...... 5/. „ 30,000 



544 Potatoes, &c. . . 8/. „ 4,352 



£172,432 t 



* The average proportions in wheat and barley have here been assumed, 

 rather than that of this particular time, for, from the comparatively low price 

 of wheat subsequent to 1835, much less of that grain than usual had been 

 sown for a year or two at that time. This is now again assuming its na- 

 tural level. 



t This estimate, we are aware, produces a very considerably higher re 

 suit than would be exhibited by adding together the estimates of the pro- 

 dace of the separate parishes as given in the New Statistical Account, but 

 these bear some marks of incorrectness — arising probably from some mis- 

 apprehension in not distinguishing, in the returns to the clergymen, the 

 disposable from the gross produce — which, it was thought, rendered the 

 above necessary, and to be preferred. 



