94 Report on Sj)ring-sotvn Wheats in 1873. 



T) feet in tlic len?;th of the straw, and I have sent you a sample of the ears. 

 Upon threshing it I found it yielded about 33 bushels per acre, with little or 

 no mildew about it. 



As an experiment, I planted 10 acres of land the 5th of March, 1873, with 

 Browick, Hallett's Golden Drop, and Square Headed wheat. All turned out 

 M-ell, with plenty of straw, and yielding about 27 bushels per acre; but it 

 required dressing with sulphate of ammonia to whip it up. Here again there 

 was little or no blight. 



Between the early part of January and March I planted various other lots 

 with the Buff Talavera and Welliugly white,' but these did not do so well as the 

 Improved Browick red wheat planted in January. 



A good proportion of the wheat aboirt here on the turnip soils is planted 

 early in the sirring, and for many years past it has answered very well. It is 

 seldom down or mildewed, and generally ripens in about a week or nine days 

 after the autumn-planted wheat. 



I can only add that, throughout this district, the January-planted wheat 

 was decidedly the best this season. 



Henry Hudson. 



12. Aylesey Farm, near Great Grimsby, 

 (650 acres Arable; 270 Pasture.) 



Soil. — Strong loam below the Lincolnshire Wolds. 



Botation. — Four-course shift. 



The extent sown with wheat in ordinary years is 180 acres in autumn. 

 Very seldom any in spring. 



"We had an unusually wet season, consequently bad seed-time ; but none of 

 the land intended for wheat was left unsown in 1872. 



The extent sown with wheat in spring, 1873, amounted to 30 acres. 



The kind sown was principally " Essex White." Quality good. Tolerably 

 productive. 



The autumn-sown wheat had received farmyard-manure on seeds. The 

 spring-sown received 2 cwt. of Lawes' concentrated manure per acre. Not 

 hoed. 



We had a tolerably fine harvest. Began cutting autumn-sown wheat 

 12th August; spring-sown about 20th August. About 4i quarters per 



acre. 



Francis Sowerby. 



13. Send Barns, Woking Station. 

 (300 acres Arable, and 40 Meadow.) 



The Soil is, most of it, heavy, on a clay subsoil. 



The Botation adopted is the four-course system. 



Wheat is principally sown early in autumn ; only occasionally is a piece 

 sown in spring, after turnips, fed off with sheep. 



About 15 acres of mangold ground were left unsown on account of wet in 

 1872 ; and about 20 acres were sown and failed in plant on accoimt of the 

 wet, and were ploughed up and replanted with barley or oats. 



15 acres (mangold land) were planted in the spring with Talavera (or High- 

 back Eough Chaff), which has yielded a very poor croi3 — the ear soft and 

 spongy (not threshed yet)— about 3 sacks per acre, of very poor quality. 



Almost any sorts sown in autumn are sown in spring ; but Talavera for 



