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heavier seeding than he practises when planting by 

 hand on his own estate. 



His experiments clearly show the tillering power of 

 not only his own wheat, but of any wheat, where space 

 is allowed for it to accomplish this important part of its 

 growth. One grain from the best ear of 1861 was 

 planted by itself on well-prepared ground, so that its 

 tillering powers should be unimpeded by competition. 

 The result was that, after the produce of this single 

 grain was removed, the stubble covered an area five 

 feet in diameter, with 84 ears averaging 7-J- inches in 

 Jength. 



GRP:AT YIELD OF ONE KERNEL. 



" In order to show how soon the product of a single 

 grain of wheat may be increased, I make the following 

 extracts from Hallett's pen : ' From one grain planted 

 September, 1859, 1 shall this year, September, 1861, drill 

 forty acres. A whole ear in 1859 would have planted 

 eighty times as much.' 



" ' I can show you a field of seven acres now up, 

 which was in one grain two years ago, and one acre 

 which was in one ear this day one year ago. In Sep- 

 tember last (1861) I drilled thirty acres with thirty 

 pecks of seed. This is now, September 30th, well up, 

 and the plants as thick as I could wish.' 



" Inasmuch as Hallett's success in England is very 

 different from a trial inthis country, I will give the 

 result of my own trial for three years past : In 1864, 

 two weeks before the end of the year, I received my 

 seed direct from Hallett's farm at Brighton. It should 

 have arrived sooner, but owing to causes over which 



