Agricultural depression

Part 1  , and  part 4 in  second  column.

Part 2

part 3

Rent  reductions on  the   Dumfries  Estate 1888, in  response to falling  produce  prices.

East Anglian  farms  for  sale  and  rent  in  the  Ayr Advertiser 1890.

The depression made farms  in  eastern England difficult  to let  causing  landlords  to  seek " Scotch " tenants , especially  dairy  farmers to  take them on. Many farmers  in  Bute, Ayrshire and  Lanarkshire moved  east  to Fife ,Lothians and  borders, or south  to  East Anglia  and the  Home  Counties.