Cultivation of Jr able Land Wheat, different Sorts of. Spring-wheat. 7 



which are fubjecl: to winter-floods. That it would be worth trying in the moun 

 tainous parts of Derbyfliire, Yorkfliire,.&c. where little or no wheat is fown, the 

 fit nation being too cold for wheat fovvn in the autumn to Rand the feverity of winter 

 frofts, and rain, without perifhing. In the fir ft volume of the Tranfactions of the 

 Society of A rts&amp;gt; Sir Wm. Fordyce, he remarks, gives an account of an experi 

 ment on fpring or Siberian wheat, in which two bumels of wheat produced two- 

 quarters of grain. It was fown the beginning of April, after turnips, and was 

 found to prove an excellent nurfe of clover and rye-grafs, fown at the fame time. 

 The turnips had been drawn, and not fed off by fhcep : the foil a mixture of 

 gravel and clay. And in the Annals of Agriculture, Vols. VII. and X., fome im 

 portant experiments on fpring wheat are recorded by Mr. Ruggles, of Clare, 

 Seed two and three bumels per acre ; the produce from two to three quarters. 

 Time of fowing the end of March. Mr. Ruggles obferves, that this wheat is apt 

 to receive injury from froft and dry weather. That it requires a dry mouldy foil ;, 

 if moift, fb much the better; but he does not conceive the crop equal to fpring 

 corn, unlefs the price of wheat mould exceed the average difference between that 

 grain and barley, or when, from an uncommon quantity of rain in autumn, the 

 wet lands may not have been fown. The weight lixty-three pounds. and a quarter 

 each bufhel, containing eight gallons three pints. Mr. Ducket, the Doctor fays, 

 has cultivated fpring-wheat on a large fcale. He drills two bumels per acre,, 

 about the middle of March. He has grown it on the fame land for three years 

 fucceflively. He has reaped this wheat on the 25th of July, got in turnips, and 

 then wheat again in fpring. And Mr. Marfhall, in his Survey of the Midland- 

 Counties, remarks, that fpring-wheat is cultivated and approved of in that diftridh- 

 It was likewife Hated in the General Evening Poft of November i2th, 1800, that 

 in an account of an experiment made that year on the genuine fpring-wheat : (&amp;lt; A 

 perfon at Bridgenorth fowed ten acres with the above wheat on the 29th and 3oth 

 of April, which produced on the average more than twenty. one threaves, com- 

 mon-fized fheaf, per acre; and, from a trial made of its produce, yielded more 

 than fixty quarts of fine wheat per threave. Seven acres was a two-year old clover- 

 Jey, cold clay land, ploughed more than feven months before fowing. Four acres 

 of the above feven were manured with four hundred bumels of lime before fowing, 

 the other three with one hundred bufiiels of foot fix weeks after. The remaining 

 three acres were fown on rather light land after turnips. The whole fown on one 

 ploughing, and houfed early in September.&quot; 

 The refult of the Doctor s extenfive experience on the cultivation of fpring 



