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abandoned in Scotland. It is not deemed sufficiently hardy for 

 their cold and wet springs, and is complained of as not tillering 

 freely. 



The Egyptian wheat, with its compound head. appearing as 

 though several heads of wheat, with the longest in the centre, 

 were brought together, is sometimes cultivated ; but its produce 

 and quality are not such as to encourage the cultivation of it. 



I might enumerate many other varieties which are cultivated 

 here ; but I have, in truth, seen none superior to kinds common in 

 the United States, especially the white western wheats. Indeed, 

 the bakers here, for the purpose of producing the finest bread and 

 confectionary, prefer the best American flour ; and it would be 

 difficult, at any time, to find any superior to the best Howard 

 Street, from Baltimore, the best Philadelphia, and the best 

 Genesee flour. 



The seed having been sown, every pains is taken to keep the 

 ground entirely free from standing water or puddles, which are 

 always hurtful to the plant ; and where the land has not been 

 thoroughly drained, furrows are run across the field, for the pur 

 pose of intercepting and carrying off any water which might 

 otherwise stand upon it. 



Where wheat is to be followed by grass, or, as it is here termed, 

 by seeds, clover and Italian rye grass are sown in the spring and 

 harrowed in. Wheat sometimes follows potatoes ; but this is not 

 generally approved. It often follows clover which has been 

 mowed or depastured, and then ploughed and rolled and harrowed, 

 and the seed sown on the inverted sward without disturbing it. 

 This practice is much commended. Some farmers have found 

 an advantage in sowing white mustard, and either feeding it off 

 by sheep folded upon it, or ploughing it under, in a state of succn- 

 lency, as a green dressing for the land. About twelve or sixteen 

 pounds, in such case, are sowed to an acre. A case is stated 

 where the farmer, after ploughing in a crop of white mustard, 

 obtained six or eight bushels more of wheat, per acre, than from 

 land which was manured with rape cake. The land in this 

 case, as I understand, was not manured for the mustard. The 

 land is usually manured for mustard with seven or eight loads of 

 manure per acre. The mustard is considered as a great preven 

 tive of wire-worms.* 



* Almack s Report of Agriculture of Norfolk. 



