Report on Spring-soicn Wheats in 1873. 



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Name. 



Quality. 



Productiveness, 



Straw, and Remarks. 



Eough Chaff 

 White. 



Hal lett's Victoria 

 White. 



Nursery Eed. 



Biddell's Impe- 

 rial Eed. 



Giant Eed. 



Good ; -weighing 



61 lbs. per bush.; 

 the grain Icnger 

 than the two 

 former. Very 

 bad in wet 

 seasons. 



Excellent grain ; 

 plump, and 



weighing 621bs. 



Good; 62 lbs. per 

 bushel. 



Good ; weighing 



62 lbs. Plump, 

 and not very 

 red. 



Coarse; 60 lbs. 



Head short and ! Very short and 

 woolly. Yields i pretty stiff. Not 

 on some occa- sown on this farm 



sions very well, since 1872. 

 and is much | 

 sown in this j 

 neighbourhood. I 



Ears longer than Long and ifaode- 

 any of the for- rately stiff, 

 mer, and yields 

 well. j 



Head short, and Short and weak, 

 does not yield i Not sown here 

 very well. | since 1872. 



Ears moderately Stiff, but not as long 

 long, and yields ' as Victoria, 

 very fairly. 



Head Ion" 



Long and coarse. 



As the wheat crop is taken after roots, it does not often require mowing or 

 manuring, but is always harrowed and rolled in April. 



The harvest this year was very late and wet. There is usually a difference 

 of ten to fourteen days between the cutting of the autumn- and spring-sown 

 wheats. The yield is considered bad this year, but I cannot give an opinion of 

 my own, as I have only thrashed a very small quantity. 



W. S. Powell. 



8. Eectory Farm, Weston Turville, Tring. 

 (220 acres, Arable; Permanent Pasture, 140.) 



Soil. — Deep gravel. 



Rotation . — Four-course, 



About 60 acres are generally sown with wheat — 50 in autumn, 10 in sprinc. 

 All were in 1872 grown during the autumn. The sorts sown were Rough Chaff 

 and Golden Drop, mixed ; Eough Chaff and Uxbridge White, separate. The first 

 named are the most productive, but the white wheats are of the best quality. 



Date of sowing, October 25th to November 10th; sometimes as late as 

 December. Clover leas are manured at Michaelmas ; hoeing in the spring is 

 always found advantageous. 



Harvest commenced between 8th and 10th of August, 1872 ; got in with 

 much difBculty, in consequence of precarious season. 



Winter wheat averaged 4^ to 5 quarters. 



The sorts above referred to make the top price, Chidham only excepted. 



I do not recommend winter wheat being sown after the early part of De- 

 cember, It is after that better to plant spring wheat. 



I made a trial last season by sowing two lands between other autumn wheat 

 in January. The result was I had the wheat blighted and not half so good as 

 that which had been early sown. 



Some neighbours sow the Cone wheat, which gives larger yield, but is of 

 inferior quality, and in straw and chaff nearly worthless. 



M. J. P. Parrott. 



