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liberal quantity of guano and other artificial mamu'es. For succeeding crops 

 we top-dress as may be required. We like to harrow oixr wheat in the spring 

 of the year, as labour here is both scarce and dear, and cannot be obtained in 

 sufficient quantity to hoe the whole of the cereals. 



In conclusion, I will beg to say that what I have written to you on this 

 subject, and especially with respect to the yields spoken of, is more for your 

 own private information than for publication ; nevertheless, if you wish to 

 make favourable mention of the wheat, or publish an ear, I could not object. 

 These extremely large yields, as I need not tell you, are only to be had on 

 well-farmed land, and in really good wheat seasons. 



C. SCHOLEY. 



8. WiTCOMBE Court, Gloucesteh. 

 (135 acres Arable ; 60 Pasture.) 



Soil. — Loam, sand, gravel, and clay. 



Wheat has been grown every other year for the last forty j-ears ; about 

 50 acres in autumn and from 12 to 15 in spring. 



The difficulties of the wheat seed-time in the autumn of 1872 were very 

 great. I only planted 25 acres, replanting a portion again in spring, for the 

 seed had perished in the ground. 



About 30 acres of land intended for wheat were thus left unsown in 1872, 

 and the extent sown with wheat in the spring of 1873 was 43 acres. 



The kinds sown were Rough Chaff and Talavera. 



Some portion of the crop, when required, was dressed with nitrate of soda, 

 1 cwt. to the acre. 



Finished harvest on the 5th of September. 



Anthoxy Bubb. 



9. Brineton House Farm, Shiffnal, Salop. 

 (About 200 acres Arable and 72 Pasture.) 



Soil very variable, the greater portion a mixed loam, with marly subsoil, 

 wet and cold, but mostly drained. 



notation. — The five-course system — turnips, wheat, clover, wheat, and 

 barley. 



The strong land clover leas and the mangel land generally get sown in the 

 autumn, about 40 to 50 acres. The light land clover leas, with the turnip 

 land, from 30 to 40 acres, are sown in the spring. 



The seed-time in the autumn of 1872 was very wet in this district. I did 

 manage to pLint two 16-acre fields, but one (the earliest) I had to resow nearly 

 all over in the spring. The other did not come away well, but tillered well, 

 and made a capital crop. 



I planted 46 acres with spring wheat, besides the 16 which were re-sown. 



In the autumn I sowed Browick Red, Golden Drop Red, and Essex Rough 

 Chaff White ; and in spring Hallett's Pedigree, Victoria White, and Talavera. 

 Browick is a rather coarse wheat, but a good yielder, and suited to our 

 strongest soils. Golden Drop is a good miller's wheat and capital yielder. 

 Both are close-set in the ear. The Essex Rough Chaff White is a very thick- 

 set wheat, with velvety chaff, a bad harvester in an awkwai'd time, as it is 

 so prone to grow, and the seasons are generally too late for it in this district. 

 But it is a capital yielder ; of good quality in a favourable season. Hunter's 

 White and Victoria White are both very useful wheats, of splendid quality 



