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to answer, it would be a great acquisition in districts, where 

 sowing winter wheat has not succeeded. 



It is of great importance to try new varieties of wheat, at 

 first on a small scale, but to be extended afterwards if found 

 to answer. Mr Wight of Ormiston informs me, that he 

 had lately occasion to see a very fine close luxuriant crop 

 of wheat growing in a field of high exposure, and thin land. 

 He was informed that this wheat was early, could be cul- 

 tivated on fallow without dung, and that it possessed a 

 <juality which no other wheat had, that of not being liable 

 to be thrown out of the ground during the winter by frost^ 

 Hence it had acquired the name of " the creeping wheat.'* 

 It will produce at the rate of 8 Linlithgow bolls per Scotch, 

 or 26 Winchester bushels per English acre. Such a sort 

 of wheat, may beofmfinite consequence in our more north- 

 ern districts. In the southern counties, it would be well 

 worth while to try the best sorts of the celebrated Dantzick 

 wheat, which sells at so high a price, and which is probably 

 hardy enough to be cultivated in favourable situations. It 

 may be difficult, however, to procure it, in a state capable 

 of vegetation, as it is generally old wheat that comes to our 

 market; it is sometimes kiln-dried, and at other times, pre- 

 vious to its being shipped on board the craft in the Vistula, 

 spread out on sails, and dried hard in the sun. The ex- 

 cellence of Dantzick is probably owing to the heat of the 

 climate, but still a change of seed, from a better climate, 

 may prove highly useful. 



In regard to the culture of wheat in general, many intel- 

 ligent agriculturists begin to be apprehensive, that from, 

 the high price of that article, farmers have been tempted 

 to sow it too often, and that it comes round too frequently 

 in the rotation, which may contribute to those diseases 

 which have of late affected that species of crop, to an extent 

 never formerly known in Scotland. It is remarked, at the 



