but is also cultivated in many districts where it was for- 

 merly unknown ; and in situations, where, from their 

 elevation, it was formerly thought impossible to raise it. 

 In the parish of Temple, in East Lothian, for instance, it 

 has already been grown, from 500 to 600 feet above the 

 level of the sea, and some are trying it with success, 

 even in higher situations *. 



There is nothing that seems more liktly to promote 

 the successful culture of wheat in Scotland, especially in 

 districts where the soil is cold, or the climate unfavour- 

 able, than to sow it early in autumn. In a farm, where 

 a tenant had declared, that it would not carry wheat, 

 that he had tried it often, and that it had not succeeded, 

 a new possessor resolved to sow it on the 12th of 

 August, and he had the satisfaction of cutting down his 

 crop on the loth of August in the following year. It 

 would have been indeed cut earlier, had the weather per- 

 mitted. 



As it was, there was no farmer in Scotland, and few 

 farmers in the northern counties of England, who had 

 such a quantity, as 300 bolls of wheat, cut down so soon. 

 It proved of uncommon good quality, and sold at a high 

 price, for seed. It averaged about 9 bolls per acre, at 16 

 stone per boll f. 



Another rule in regard to the culture of wheat is, that 

 of sowing it in a dry bed. Baron Hepburn well ob- 



* Communication from Mr George Farme, of Braidwood, 

 near Dalkeith. 



f . Communication from Mr Allan regarding his farm of 

 Oldliston. Mr Allan states, that early wheat, threshed in the 

 month of August, does not require to be pickled or screened, 

 as there is no ball or smut ever seen among early wheat sown 

 at that time. 



