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more fashionable varieties. As the lammas or 
red wheat ripens, it begins to hang its head, 
and the rain falls very readily from it: 
whereas the white and bearded wheats gene- 
rally support their heads perpendicularly dur- 
ing the whole of their growth, and being 
downy and disposed to retain moisture, are, | 
of course, more liable to sprit in this position 
than when the head is more pendant from the 
stalk. We were particularly struck with the 
bright yellow colour of the wheat straw, which 
seemed to resemble in quality that which 
is grown upon the chalk lands of Bedford- 
shire. We could not however learn, that it 
had been at all applied to the same beautifal 
manufacture. Near Dunstable it is a source 
of the greatest profit to the farmer, as it 
is not unusual for a crop of wheat straw to 
sell for much more than the grain. 
Adjoining the Burton road, so great a pro- 
portion of the land is in tillage, that we did 
not expect to see much live stock. The 
plows were drawn by two horses abreast, led 
by a single one, and of course requiring a 
driver. 
After leaving Burton, we had a rich view 
of an extensive tract of corn land, appa- 
rently under very productive management. 
Although the country from Lancaster to 
