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40 bushels produced on an acre; and I am strongly inclined 

 to believe that the average of good cultivation, in ordinary 

 seasons, is seldom less than 32 bushels per acre. The product 

 of good cultivation should be considered therefore as the 

 standard crop, without reducing it by the much smaller crops 

 of those who either cultivate negligently, or manure sparingly, 

 or suffer their crops to be stifled with weeds. 



In an experiment carefully made by a distinguished farmer * in 

 Northamptonshire, who has given to the world, in a plain and 

 practical manner, the results of his agricultural experience, the 

 products per acre of six different kinds of wheat sown were 

 as follows : 



The Essex brown yielded at the rate of 40 bush. ; 64 Ibs. per bush. 



&quot; Surrey white, 36 &quot; 64 &quot; &quot; &quot; 



&quot; Brown, (called clover,) . . . 40 &quot; 63 &quot; &quot; &quot; 



&quot; Snow-drop white. 39 &quot; 63 &quot; &quot; 



&quot; Burwell brown, 45 &quot; 63 &quot; &quot; &quot; 



&quot; Whittington white, .... 38 a 62 &quot; &quot; &quot; 



Here were six different kinds, of which it must be admitted 

 the yield was large, and shows what may be done. 



In an experiment made by W. Miles, Esq., M. P., the produce, 

 per acre, of sound wheat was 48 bushels ; 42 bushels 2 pecks ; 

 47 bushels ; 35 bushels 3 pecks ; 49 bushels. 



The crops on a farm, of P. Pusey, Esq. were, on one acre, at 

 the rate of 37f bushels ; on another, 45J bushels ; on another, 

 47J bushels. &quot; This, it will be remarked, was not a garden ex 

 periment, but applies to a whole field of wheat, and the amount 

 was given by the occupier of the land.&quot; 



W. L. Kidd, M. D., of Armagh, Ireland, informed me that he 

 obtained at the rate of 50 bushels of 62 Ibs., or about 28 cwt., 

 per acre, and that there were persons in the neighborhood whose 

 crops were still larger. The wheat was red wheat ; the quality 

 such as to command the highest price. The soil was a stiff 

 clay recumbent on limestone. 



Mr. Theadstow, of Booth, near Liverpool, informs me, that 

 in 1844-5, on a piece of land less than a statute acre, he pro- 



* C. Hillyard, Esq., Thorpelands. 



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