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Report on Spring-soion Wheats in 1873. 



The xisiial spring wheats do not fetch a good price. Such winter wheats as 

 Kursery and Talavera may be sown after Christmas, but their yield is not 

 usually good. 



Spring wheat did not pay here on a good barley farm ; and this year our 

 winter wheat has been better than usual. 



James Buckmak. 



6. KiNGSCOTE, Wotton-tjnder-Edge, Gloucestershire. 

 (3G0 acres Pasture ; 400 acres Arable.) 



Soil. — The Kingscote Home Farm is a light brash on the Oolite formation. 



The Rotation of Cropping generally adopted is the five-field system — twa 

 years seeds. 



One fifth of the wheat is generally sown with wheat in spring ; namely, 

 20 acres where mangolds and swedes are got off. 



We had no difSculties at wheat seed-time in the ai;tumn of 1872. 



Of wheats sown here, the Eed Lammas, and Browick Bed and Bough Chaff 

 mixed, the latter was the most productive. The former is very suitable ta 

 our soil and climate. As a rule the sample was good. 



The wheat was all put in with drill, 2 bushels per acre, horse-hocd, 

 harrowed and rolled in the spring. No manure. 



F. Burnett. ' 



7. Eglwysnunydd, Glamorganshire. 

 (Arable 141 acres ; Pasture, 278.) 



[This was the Prize-farm in 1872]. 



tSoil. — The arable land is moderately light, and situated midway between 

 the sea and the Margam moimtains, 1129 feet high ; the rainfall is, therefore, 

 great, but the climate is mild. 



Rotation. — The five-course is generally followed, and the wheat is planted 

 after roots. 



About 30 acres are nearly always sown in spring ; and, not only on this 

 farm, but within a radius of four miles, fully 90 per cent, is spring-sown. 



Only one field in the parish was sown in the autumn of 1872. 



Thirty acres were sown in spring on this farm. 



The following sorts have been grown in this neighbourhood : — 



