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ten, fifteen, twenty-five, and even up to ninety 

 and 100 ears, as the case may be ; and as each 

 ear would contain from 60 to 120 grains, crops of 

 500 to 2,500 grains, or more, could be obtained 

 from each separately planted grain. He even 

 exhibited at the Exeter meeting of the British 

 Association three plants of wheat, barley, and 

 oats, each from a single grain, which had the 

 following number of stems : wheat, ninety-four 

 stems ; barley, 110 stems ; oats, eighty-seven 

 stems.* The barley plant which had 110 stems 

 thus gave something like 5,000 to 6,000 grains 

 from one single grain. A careful drawing of 

 that wonderful stubble was made by Major 

 Hallett's daughter and circulated with his 

 pamphlets. f Again, in 1876, a wheat plant, with 

 "105 heads growing on one root, on which more 

 than 8,000 grains were growing at once," was 

 exhibited at the Maidstone Farmers' Club.J 

 Two different processes were thus involved in 



upright growth." The less the roots have been interfered 

 with by overcrowding the better will be the ears (Major Hallett, 

 " Thin Seeding," etc.). 



* Paper on " Thin Seeding and the Selection of Seed," read 

 before the Midland Farmers' Club, 4th June, 1874. 



t "Pedigree Cereals," 1889. Paper on "Thin Seeding," 

 etc., just mentioned. Abstracts from The Times, etc., 1862. 

 Major Hallett contributed, moreover, several papers to the 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, and one to The Nine- 

 teenth Century. 



J Agricultural Gazette, 3rd January, 1876. Ninety ears, 

 some of which contained as many as 132 grains each, were also 

 obtained in New Zealand. 



