The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-11 00:00:00

RESULTS OF TEE HARVEST IN

SCOTLAND.

The harvest being now nearly over and the crop well
secured we may form an approximate estimate of the re-
sults. In Aberdeenshire grain crops are reported gene-
rally as a fifth below the average, but fair sample and
average weight. In Argyllshire the yield is up to the
average. In Ayrshire wheat is bulky, but grain defici-
ent ; oats are deficient in bulk, but fine in quality, and
weigh well. In Berwickshire the harvest is late, and the
few samples offered in the market do not promise well.
In Dumbartonshire wheat is an average return and qua.
tfourrnplogrfaorushtire
lity good. In Dumfriesshire wheat is unequal and a
great deal of it light ; oats are light, and all the cereals
well ; other
are below the average. The returns for East Lothian
gives
show a deficiency of one-fifth and the quality mixed. In
bulk at one-fourth below the average, sFoirfetssl,airree
dspefiricnigen-str
Tnhwehreeaptorist
but theyield the
' fair, though the quality is inferior. The of
grain
in Invernes-shire do not bulk well, and the '
quality is
considered to be inferior. In Kinross i
wheat s an aver.
age ; other cereals deficient. On the east coast of Kincar-
dineshire there is an average crop of
arc short in bulk and deficient wheat, but oats
in weight. The re-
turns for Kirkcudbright
are fully up to the aver-
age, and quality fine. very
wheat is deficient, but oats ne. In Lanarkshire
t oats an average crop.
In Linlithgowshire oats are good and up to the
average, bar
ley
3 lb. under the full weight. Mid-
Lothian wheat
crop
bulks well, but the grain is not turn-
ing out to the satisfaction of the farmer. The wheat
in Morayshire is fair, but scarcely an average. In the
county of Nairn the returns are very fair. The wheat
crop is fully an average in Peeblesehiro ; barley also
food. The cereals in Perthshire are rather light, but of
good quality. In the Renfrewshire district the quality is
very fine, but the returns from the mills are somewhat
deficient. In Ross-shire the cereals generally are under
the average. The returns for Roxburghshire show good
spring wheat, but winter sorts deficient ; oats fair, bar-
ley bulky, but of poor quality. In Selkirkshire oats are
up to the average ; other cereals rather under it. In the
county of Sutherland oats give from 8 to 10, barley
from 4 to 6, and wheat only 4 bushels the acre, the qua-
lity very good ; and in Wigtonshire the yield is short,
but quality fine. Potatoes are generally good, and tur-
nips above the average. For home and local consump.
tion the deficiency in the cereals will be more than made
up by the surplus on the green crops, so that upon the
whole Scotland will be found to have contributed her full
share to the staples of vegetation.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett, successors to Mr. Colburn, announce, among
their other forthcoming works, " The Life of Jeanne
D'Albret, Queen of Navarre," by Miss Freer, author of
" The Life of Marguerite D'Angouleme," 2 vols. ; " My
Exile in Siberia," by Alexander Herzen, 2 vols. (now
" The Wanderer in Arabia," by G. T. Lowth,
Esci.y' ) ;
2 vols., with illustrations ; a new work by Thomas
flood (son of the author of "Whims and Oddities")
"Scottish Heroes in the Days of Wallace and Bruce,"
by the Rev. A, Low, 2 vols. The same publishers have
also in preparation new novels by the following popular
writers :—Mrs. Gore, Miss Kavanagh, the author of
" Margaret Maitland," the author of " The Head of the
Family," the author of "Emilia Wyndhan3,7 the author
of "The History of A Flirt," &c.