on light dry land, but not to be depended on where the 

 soil is wet, and the climate not very early *. 



* Though not strictly connected with the subject of Scotch 

 Husbandry, I cannot deny myself the pleasure of inserting 

 the following Note, containing some particulars transmitted 

 to me by that celebrated farmer George Culley, regarding 

 the spring culture of winter wheat. 



" Respecting the sowing of winter wheat in the spring, after 

 turnips, I can speak in a very full manner, as I am persuaded 

 very few farmers in this island have had more experience of 

 that practice. I believe that spring sown winter wheat had 

 not been much tried in this county before my late brother and 

 1 settled here in the year 1767. We had made some small 

 trials in the county of Durham before coming north ; but 

 immediately on our taking Fenton farm, we tried it upon a. 

 pretty large scale, from one to 200 acres in the year. But 

 for many years after we extended our farming concerns, we 

 seldom grew fewer than 500 acres and upwards annually ! 

 and with never-failing success, one year excepted, when a 

 partial mildew took place, until those last three fatal years, 

 when most of the wheat in these northern parts of the inland 

 have been more or less affected with that dreadful malady I 

 Not that spring -sown wheat was more hurt than the wirvter- 

 sown, but perhaps less injured upon the whole. Neverthe- 

 less, I do not know whether I ought to recommend it to be 

 much sown in the southern counties or not, because, in the 

 trials we made in the county of Durham, we had nothing 

 like such plentiful crops as we produce here." 



" Besides, in the county of Durham, and all the way from 

 thence to the southward, they can grow more barley in 

 quant'ty, and better in quality, than we can by much, and 

 it is also always much higher sold ; consequently the g: ow- 

 ing of spring-sown winter wheat after turnips, becomes not 

 so much a matter of consequence to them. Allow me to re- 

 mark one thing, Sir John, which I cannot account for : we 

 can perhaps produce the best oats of any in Great Britain, 

 and yet we grow very indifferent barley. Perhaps, not only 

 the friable fertility of our turnip soils in Glendale Ward, but 

 the vicinity of the mountains, may be favourable to the pro- 

 duction of spring-sown wlreat ; and I must now, Sir John, 

 ask you a question, who has visited different climates, whe> 



