THE month of March has been stormy in the extreme. During the first five days it blew violently, with heavy showers of snow at short intervals, from the west and south-west. On the evening of the 4th, the wind shifted towards the south-east, accompanied with heavy rain, but soon changed again to the south-west; and, though it did not blow with the same violence as it had done the day before, the Barometer, during the night, sunk lower than we had before seen in the course of our observations. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 5th, it stood at 27.970; but, as it was then rising, we have no doubt of its having been still lower during the morning. On the night between the 4th and 5th, the tide rose higher in the Tay than it has been known to do for several years; and what rendered it more extraordinary, was its being the first of the stream. It is hardly necessary to remind our readers, that it was on the same night that the violent hurricane was experienced in London, and in other places in the south of England. The 22d of the month was, perhaps, one of the most stormy days ever experienced in this part of the country. The wind blew strong from the west during the whole day, with very heavy, and almost uninterrupted, showers of snow. After the 26th, the weather cleared up, with brisk dry winds from the north and north-west. The mean temperature is nearly two degrees lower than that of March 1817, and the quantity of rain and snow more than double. The hygrometer of course is lower, and the evaporation less. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, Extracted from the Register kept on the Banks of the Tay, four miles east from Perth, Latitude 56° 25', Elevation 185 feet.-MARCH 1818. Fair days 13; rainy days 18; wind, west of meridian, 27; east of meridian, 4. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, Kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Caltonhill. N. B.-The Observations on the Thermometer in the first column are made at four o'clock afternoon, the others are made twice every day, at eight o'clock in the morning, and eight o'clock in the evening. Stute of Barometer, &c. from Mar. 14. to April 13. 1818, in the Vicinity of Edinburgh THE weather, since our last, has been for the most part favourable to sowing the spring grains, having been for some time, and still continuing, dry and cold, with the wind from the easterly points. But, in some of the higher grounds, this important operation has been retarded by snow and frost, and is far from being yet finished. Great loss has been sustained in the hilly districts, both in lambs and old sheep, particularly in the former, the greater number of them having perished in some instances. Of the spring markets, both for sheep and cattle, we shall give a particular account in our next: What sales have been made are at considerably improved prices, but they do not appear to have yet become so steady as to justify a comparison with the prices of former years. A consi derable importation of grain and flour has lately been made into London, Liverpool, and other places, about 30,000 quarters of wheat and 20,000 quarters of oats into London in one week, so that prices have fallen within this fortnight for almost all sorts of corn. Among the premiums offered by the Board of Agriculture, we are glad to find the following, which we hope may go far to settle a question, which, notwithstanding all that has been lately written on the subject, is not yet fully established in the opinion of practical men : Salt as Food.-To the person who shall make, and report to the Board, the most satisfactory experiments on the application of salt, fo, assisting in feeding or fattening the live stock of a farm-The Gold Medal, or Fifty Pounds. "Accounts, verified by certificates, specifying the number and quality of the stock fed, with the quantity of the salt consumed by the same, to be produced on or before the 1st of March, 1820. "Salt as Manure.-To the person who shall make, and report to the Board, the most satisfactory experiments to ascertain the advantages or disadvantages which have attended the use of salt as a manure, either simple, or mixed with other substances.-The Gold Medal, or Fifty Pounds. "Accounts, verified by certificates, specifying the nature of the soil on which the expements are made, with the quantity of the salt, and the time of its application, the effect on the crop cultivated, to be produced on or before the 1st of March, 1820.” CAITHNESS. The Sheriff fiars of this county were struck at Thurso on Saturday the 28th Feb. in presence of the Sheriff-depute. A respectable and intelligent jury were impannelled. A number of witnesses were examined, and after a most patient hearing of evidence for several hours, the jury were inclosed, and returned a verdict to the Sheriff, unanimously finding the price of bear to be 25s, per boll, and oatmeal 8 stones Dutch weight 26s. per boll. By a plurality of voices the jury found the price of common white oats to be 24s. the four firlots, and black oats 12s. RENFREWSHIRE. 1st rate. 2d rate. 3d rate. Wheat, per boll...... 39s 0d | 38s 1d | 36s Od Bear and barley, do. 35s 113d 35s 11d 30s 11d do. 26s 6d 24s Old [22s od Oats, Oatmeal, do. 30s 7d 29s 14d) 27s 7d Pease and beans no fiar, there being no proof. ROXBURGHSHIRE. Wheat, by the Ti viotdale boll L. 2 50 Pease, do..... 1 15 0 [ Beans, do........... 1 13 4] Barley, ditto... L.1 170 Average Prices of Scotland for the Four Weeks immediately preceding March 15. Wheat. 68s. 4d.-Rye, 54s. 2d.-Barley, 41s. 8.-Oats, 31s. 9d.-Beans, 63s. Od.-Pease, 53s. 3d,Oatmeal, 27s. 10d.-Bear or Big, 39s. Od. Aggregate Averages of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and Wales, by which Importation is to be regulated in Great Britain. Wheat, 85s. 1d-Rye, 49s. 11d.-Barley, 46s. 104.-Oats, 28s. 8d.-Beans, 52s. 6d.-Pease, 51s. 3d, Oatmeal 325, 4d.-Rapeseed, 956. |