I V.-INDUSTRY.

Agriculture.-The whole parish is arable, excepting plantation and mosses, not probably amounting to a twentieth part. Th average rent per acre about L. 1, 12s.

Sheep is a rare stock, the fences not containing them; for the same reason, cattle are uniformly herded in the day, and house at night, in the west. In the eastern division, the quality of stock is excellent; and they are turnip fed through the winter to a considerable extent, and have fences sufficient for their pasture There also, the system of husbandry is good ; and furrow-drainings extend to the westward, where it is much needed. Police dung from Edinburgh is employed to a great extent. Lime also from the neighbouring parish of Linlithgow, is largely used. The farm-buildings are much improved, being adapted in the east to farms of 300 or 400 acres; in the west, to 40 or 50. In the small farms, the want of shelter and inclosure and capital is great.

The farms in the eastern district are generally allotted into five parts,-two in grass, one in green crop, one in wheat or barley, one in oats. The grass, including hay, may be reckoned at L.5; green crop L.16; the grain at L.6 per acre; and though the system of farming to the westward is various, and the soil inferior, the extent of surface may render its produce double.

The gross annual produce may be stated thus: Grain, L.20,000; green Crop, L 10,400; hay and grass, L.7850; in all, L.38,250.