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thus raised, and have some of that which was better. I woukl 

 thank you not to sow this wheat before the latter part of October, 

 or the beginning of November^ as it is inclined to tiller early. 

 T send you the exact quantities grown each year from this single 

 ear, and I do so that you may avail yourself of any opportunity 

 or way you please of showing to my brother-farmers how short a 

 space of time is required to raise a good sort of any grain : — 

 Years. Produce. 



1838 dibbled in 50 kernels (30 of which only grew) 14f oz. 



1839 „ „ 14| oz. „ „ 1 bush. 1 peck 



1840 „ „ 1 bush. 1 peck 45 bush. 



1841 „ „ 45 bush. „ „ 537 bush. 

 And had this wheat not been as much red-gummed as my other 

 sorts, I believe I should this year have had 100 bushels more." 



This concludes my report, and it will be for the Council to 

 determine, after the receipt of the reports of Messrs. Handley 

 and Kimberley, whether or no they think the wheats selected at 

 Liverpool for the prizes are so superior to the sorts in general 

 use as to entitle them to the stamp of approbation which the 

 award of the premiums from the Royal English Agricultural 

 Society to either would confer. I consider all the four wheats 

 remarkably good, and well worthy of general attention ; and from 

 my tabular results should be inclined to say that, if a premium is 

 to be given to any, it should be to red No. 2, the produce of 

 which was much greater in quantity than from the other reds. 



King's Weston, 22nd September, 1842. 



I have sent to Hanover Square specimens of the different kinds 

 of wheat in straw with roots indifferently selected, and samples 

 of each of the seeds sown as well as those grown, together with a 

 small quantity of the soil of the field on which the experiment 

 was carried out, and have likewise added a plant of Egyptian 

 mummy-wheat grown in my garden. 



XXX.— Report on Prize- Wheats. By G. Kimberley. 



I REGRET that my report of the wheats sent me from Liverpool 

 for trial must be very unsatisfactory and inconclusive, in conse- 

 quence of the incessant rain of last autumn, and the exceedingly 

 harsh and long-continued dry weather of the spring, the wet of 

 the autumn causing a great loss of plant in some parts of the 

 land, and the dry spring having so baked our sandy, loamy soil, 

 that neither harrow nor hoe could make any effectual impression. 

 The land selected for the trial of the four sacks of wheat I re- 

 ceived is the best wheat-land I possess, being a sandy loam, with, 

 in some parts, a clay and others a sandy subsoil, and inclover4ey, 



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