SEPT.] WHEAT AFTER FALLOW. 



whitest flour. There are also a yellow and a 

 brown lam mas. 



2. Hoary white ; white straw, ear, and grain. 



3. Bearded ; productive on very poor, cold, wet 

 land ; but a coarse grain, and sells for an inferior 

 price. 



4. Clark wheat; red blossom, chaff, and straw, 

 but white grain ; a favourite sort in Sussex. 



5. Hedge wheat ; white: very produclive. 



6. Velvet ; a distinct sort from the hoary white ; 

 it is a white wheat, and though not weighty, yields 

 much flour ; a very thin skin. 



7. Cone wheat of various sorts, so called from 

 the shape of the ear. 



STEEPING THE SEED. v 



The modes of steeping, brining, and liming the 

 seed, are innumerable ; all are equally intended 

 as precautions against the smut. I made several 

 experiments on this object, from which it appeared, 

 that steeping from twelve to twenty-four hours in 

 a ley of wood ashes, in lime-water, and in a solu- 

 tion of arsenic, gave clean crops from extremely 

 smutty seed, but a short time in those mixtures had 

 a much less effect. 



WHEAT AFTER FALLOW. 



If there is one practice in husbandry proved by 

 modern improvements to be worse than another, it 

 is that of sowing wheat on fallows : all I shall 

 therefore observe under this head is, to note that in 

 some counties the fallows are ploughed just before 

 harvest on to two bout ridges, ready to plough and 

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