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duced 64 bushels of wheat of 70 pounds the bushel. I 

 will subjoin his statement in this case. &quot; The soil is very 

 light, consisting of a great portion of sand, and lying close to 

 the sea-shore. The land, the previous year, had been trenched 

 to the depth of about three feet, by hand labor, and well manured 

 with horse and cow manure, and planted with potatoes. When 

 the wheat was sown, the ordinary mode of cultivation was pur 

 sued. Something short of two bushels of white Dantzic wheat 

 was sown. The seed had been produced on land of a heavier 

 nature than that on which it was sown here. The mode of 

 sowing was broadcast ; the time of sowing, the 1st of December. 

 This is a mode of cultivation adopted generally on my farm, 

 universally with vegetables, ; and produces sometimes uncom 

 mon roots. Some of the cabbages, which I have weighed, 

 weighed 451bs. each.&quot; In some experiments made in Gloucester 

 shire, the products were as follows, per acre, of good wheat : 



Brown s white prolific, 48 bush. 3 pecks ; weight, 62 Ibs. per bush. 



&quot; red prolific, . 46 &quot; 2 &quot; &quot; 60J&quot; &quot; &quot; 



Whittington white, . 48 &quot;....&quot; 59 &quot; &quot; &quot; 

 Old Herts white, .. 46 &quot;....&quot; 61 &quot; &quot; &quot; 

 Golden drop red, . . 49 &quot;..... &quot; 61J&quot; 

 Creeping wheat, (red,) 46 &quot; 1 peck ; 62J &quot; 



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The above were planted on a gravelly loam, (clover lay,) in a 

 high state of cultivation. 



In the same county, in another case, the products were as sub 

 joined. Cobham wheat, per acre, 42 bushels ; Brown s white 

 Chevalier, 44 bushels ; yellow Chevalier, 36 bushels ; Whitting 

 ton white, 3S bushels ; Hertfordshire white, 39 bushels ; Golden 

 drop, 40 bushels. 



The above were grown after peas, which is considered a bad 

 preparation for wheat. 



In Worcestershire, a crop of wheat, in 1843-4, was at the 

 rate of 45 bushels to the acre ; and as much was expected the 

 succeeding season. It was of a kind called Burletta wheat, and 

 was sown by drill at the rate of two bushels per acre. 



In another part of Worcestershire, in 1844-5, on 130 acres, the 

 crop was nearly 47 bushels per acre, and the sample represented 

 as excellent. 



