AGRICULTURE, MARKETS
... , &c. Parish of Newlands, Peebles-shire, 4th Dec. 1818. This day the annual parish ploughing match was held in a field of clover lea, on the farm of Mr Tenant, in Spittlehaugh, intended to be under turnip fallow the ensuing season. The instructions to the ploughmen were, accordingly, to make a strong furrow of seven inches in depth by eleven in width. Twenty-six ploughs started in competition ...