j $ Cultivation of Arabic Land. Wheat. Quantity of Seed 



crop in the proper time. This is often the cafe after peas, beans, tares, turnips, 

 and other iimilar crops. In thefe cafes, on the lighter forts of foils, and where 

 drill culture is employed, it may often be a more advifable practice to fow in 

 the fpring, as by fuch a delay the ground may be brought into a more perfect 

 ftate of preparation than could be the cafe in fowing it fo late in the winter. 

 When this method is adopted, that fort which is known by the name of fpring 

 wheat may be the mod proper, though it is evinced, by the fuccefs of experi 

 ments in fowing at this feafon, that any of the white thm-fkmned forts of wheat 

 may be employed not only with fafety, but with the profpect of affording a 

 good produce*. The rnoft proper periods for this fort of fowing are the latter end 

 of April, or the beginning of the following month, as when fown earlier, in the ex 

 perience of fome it has been found to become fhri veiled and to be liable to the 

 blight. Other fprmg grain crops, however, in general, probably pay better. 



Seed. The quantity of feed that is to be made ufe of in different cafes we 

 have already feen to depend upon and be regulated by a variety of different cir- 

 eumftances, but in general from two to three buihels, according to the flate of 

 the foil, the nature of the climate, and the period in which it is put into the 

 ground, may be efteemed the moft fuicable proportion for foils of a medium de 

 gree of fertility, under the broadcafb method of hulbandry ; but where the drill 

 fyftem of culture is practifed, a conftderably lefs proportion may be Sufficient for 

 the purpofe, as has been explained in a more full manner in fpeaking of the 

 mature of fowing, or putting different forts of grain crops into the earth. 



In the drilling and dibbling methods of fowing, which are unqueftionably the 

 -heft, where they are performed with correctnefs, fix pecks of feed is fufficient : in 

 rhe latter mode two rows being put in on a flag, care being taken to have the land 

 rolled, after having been ploughed a fortnight or more, and the feed dibbled in to 

 a fufiicient-depth, without fcattering, covering it in by bufli harrowing. Where 

 the lands have a known difpofition to mildew, a larger proportion of feed mould 

 be given, whatever the foil or feafon in which it is put in, may be. Much lefs 

 feed is ncceffary in early than late fowings. 



On the rich foils of Glouceflerfhire, the quantity generally fown has been 

 jftated to be about feven pecks ; while in many other diflricts, as Yorkfliire, it is 

 from eight to twelve -]. Where the lands, are in a fuitable ftate of tillage for 

 receiving crops of this grain, ten pecks have been advifed by a practical write* 

 as the medium proportion^. Larger quantities are likewife frequently fown ia 



&quot;*-F\ter, io Bath Papers, vol .IX. -f- Marshall s Rural Economy* . 



Donaldion s Modern Agriculture, vol. IL 



