Cultivation of Arable Land. Wheat, different Sorts of. Spring-wheat. 



uheat is as follows : &quot; i. That it is a diftincl: fpecies of wheat, as obferved by 

 Columclla, Linnaeus, and Ray. He has fown it in fpring, at the fame time, and 

 in the fame field, with common wheat. The common wheat failed, while the 

 fpring-wheat rofe to a crop, idly, That being liable to be hurt by the froft, no ad 

 vantage is gained by early fowing. That though the proper feafon may be about 

 the middle of April, yet it may be fown fo late as the 1 5th of May, as he found by 

 experience laft year, when, notwithftanding the unfavourable feafon, it ripened 

 before barley fown at the fame time, and on the fame field, and was cut on the 

 2oth of September, immediately after the autumn-fown wheat; the crop two 

 quarters per acre. 3dly, That about two bulhels may be the proper quantity of 

 feed per acre ; uhen drilled, lefs ; his has been fown broad-caft. That the average 

 produce may be about two quarters per acre, unlefs when fown after turnips fed 

 off by fhcep, when he has gained three quarters per acre. 4thly, That the ave 

 rage value may be about is. lefs per bufhel than the common wheat. He fold 

 this year the fpring wheat at IDS. while us. was given for the common fort. 

 5thly, That being a fmallcr grain than the common wheat, it ripens earlier and 

 with lefs fun : in a wet harveft, therefore, it dries fooner for grinding, as he ex 

 perienced laft year. That it receives but little injury from a wet fummer and au 

 tumn, but will ripen earlier than barley in fuch a feafon. And, tfthly, That when 

 harrowed in on autumn-fown wheat, in places where the crop has failed, it will 

 ripen at the fame time without injuring thefample; which would not be the 

 cafe with either barley or oats. It may therefore, he thinks, on a larg farm, de- 

 fervethe attention of the hufbandman, and be worth his while always to cultivate 

 a fmall quantity, as the beft means of reftoring a thin wheat crop. Magazan 

 beans, when dibbled in, will anfwer the fame purpofe, but perhaps not equally 

 well, as they may be longer in drying than the wheat.*&quot; 



But though Dr. Wilkinfon recommends the Triticum &amp;lt;eftfoum as beft adapted 

 for fpring culture, Dr. Pike thinks that in fome northern parts ofthe iiland, 

 where the common wheat is generally found to fail when fown in fpring, it may 

 probably be fo : but continues his afTertio-n that he has repeatedly fown both the 

 common red or Kentifh wheat, and the white, in the fpring, and had excellent crops. 

 Dr. Pike has not, however, mentioned the nature of his land. 



The former of the above writers has likewife given fome ufeful obfervations, 

 *he refult of his own experience, on the nature and cultivation of another kind of 



-* Monthly Magazine, Vol. IX. p. 244. 



