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wheat, ufually known by the title of Egypt Jan or prolific wbraf, though little at 

 tended to by writers on hufbanclry. He found the fir (I year, on three acres of 

 inoift loam, which had been previoufly fallowed, that nine buihds of feed produced 

 nine quarters of wheat. In .the fame field, after a fimilar preparation, the fame 

 proportion of white wheat, fown at the fame time, produced three quarters four 

 bufhcls per acre. In both cafes the fallow was drefled with about one hundred 

 bufhels of lime per acre, at yd. per bufhel delivered. Four bufliels of the Egyp 

 tian wheat, though weighing four pounds more than the fame quantity of white 

 wheat, yet produced twelve pounds lefs of flour, the bran being coarfer and 

 heavier. 



&quot; After the month of May the growth was more rapid than that of common 

 wheat ; on which account, he mould fuppofe it might be fown with advantage in 

 fpring. The enfuing fpring will prefent a fair opportunity for the trial. The 

 flraw fo nearly refembles a reed, that it has been called reed wheat. Being heavy 

 and tough, it is cut with difficulty ; on which account the reapers require an ex 

 traordinary price. It is excellent for thatching, and he has employed it for this 

 purpofe on a large hay-barn. The truiTes, on account of their weight, would 

 appear fo finall that the flraw would apt be faleable in the London market. The 

 ears are bearded like the cone wheat, but in fhape referable the fquare wheat or 

 rivet. The length of the flraw and weight of the ear make it liable to lodge. 



&quot; On expofing it tofale, he found the millers not inclined to purchafe it. They 

 complain that it is of too homey a nature; that it grinds hard, and obliges them 

 to fet their floncs too clofe. The flour is coarfer and darker than that of the com 

 mon wheat. A miller who purchafed fome was charged by his cuflomers with 

 grinding rivets. Great part of the crop fold at a price but little above that of 

 good barley. As the crop, though apparently thin on the ground, had yielded 

 three quarters per acre, he entertained hopes that the cultivation might anfwcr, 

 even at the price of barley, if on lighter land, and a warmer foil, he could fecure 

 a larger produce. With this view, therefore, the following year, he fowed on a 

 lighter loam two acres with this wheat, and the remaining fix acres of the field 

 with the common red wheat : the whole on a clover ley. The produce of the red 

 wheat was three quarters per acre, but of the Egyptian not above two quarters per 

 acre ; and he found great difficulty in difpofing of it even at the price of barley. 

 He concludes, therefore, that this wheat will not anfwer in this country, where 

 wheat of a fuperior quality can be cultivated to advantage, unlcfs it can be intro 

 duced as a fpring corn. He has ilnce met with an account of this grain having 



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