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First published 1971 (SND Vol. VIII).
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Quotation dates: 1714, 1893
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SALTOUN, prop.n. Also solton(e). Used attrib. of fanner-dressed pot barley (see 1893 quot.). Hist., referring to the period after 1710. The name survived “long after barley mills had come into general use” (J. E. Handley Sc. Farming in 18th c. (1953) 218). [′sɑltən]Abd. 1714 Abd. Jnl. N. & Q. VII. 233:
For a stoneweight soltone barlie 1½ libs.Sc. 1893 Scottish Review XXII. 84:
His greatest improvement in the agriculture of his shire was when he [Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun] took Meikle, a millwright, to Holland, to study corn mills. The result was the introduction of fanners in threshing, and the corn thus treated acquired a wide reputation as “Saltoun barley”.
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