Scottish Economic History Database

Crop Returns for Oats & Bear at Melville, Fife; 1737 - 1757

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Crop Returns for Pease & Wheat at Melville

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INPUT 1 2 N  
 
 Crop Returns for Oats & Bear at Melville, Fife; 1737 - 1757
 From; Scottish Record Office; GD 26/5/559
       Account Book of the Melville Estate; 1731 - 1751

 This file contains;

 1 - Oats sown (bolls)
 2 - Oats produced (bolls)
 3 - Oats increase (multipier)
 4 - Bear sown (bolls)
 5 - Bear produced (bolls)
 6 - Bear increase (multiplier)

 See also Returns for pease and wheat.

FORMAT
1 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 (I4,1X,F5.2)
1 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 (I4,7X,F8.4)
1 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 (I4,16X,F4.1)
1 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 (I4,21X,F5.2)
1 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 (I4,27X,F9.5)
1 2 1 2 3 0 0 0 (I4,37X,F5.2)
STOP
Crop ........Oats......  .......Bear......... 
Year Sown  Produce Inc.  Sown   Produce  Inc. 
     Bolls  Bolls        Bolls   Bolls
DATA
1737 27.25  84.2500 3.09  2.00  25.00000 12.50
1739 26.0  108.5    4.17  4.75  50.0     10.53
1741 38.5  208.3125 5.41 17.25 136.71875  7.93
1742 40.0  146.25   3.66 18.25 106.5      5.84
1743 59.75 167.25   2.80 18.5   96.0      5.19
1744 55.00 112.75   2.05 14.5   59.5      4.10
1745 49.0  180.25   3.68 10.0   64.25     6.43
1746 46.0  193.0    4.2  11.5  117.0     10.17
1747 99.0  411.75   4.16 23.0  120.75     5.25
1748 90.25 361.0    4.0  23.5  132.75     5.65
1749 79.0  273.25   3.46 19.0   98.25     5.17
1750 64.0  254.0    3.97  8.0   51.0      6.38
1751 44.0  163.4375 3.71 18.0   90.5      5.03
1752 32.0  148.25   4.63 14.0   98.5      7.04
1753 31.0  139.5    4.5  21.0  128.5      6.12
1754 72.0  325.25   4.52 14.0   83.1875   5.94
1755 60.0  212.0    3.53 22.0  184.5      8.39
1756 60.0  231.5    3.86 16.25 133.25     8.2 
1757 44.0  168.0625 3.82 25.0  152.25     6.09
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