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MONTHLY JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE. 



Bearded Wheat. — Mr. Halconib, of Poiilton, near Marlborough, reported to the Council 

 the success with whicli he had cultivated a new vanety of Bearded Spring Wheat, adapted 

 for soils not suited t» barley, or for late sowing after turnips, from seed furnished to him by 

 Mr. Elliot, of .ledbm-gh, in 1840, originally obtamed from Mr. Dickson of Hawick, by whom 

 it had been introduced into Scotland from Russia. Mr. Halcomb put a portion of this seed 

 into the ground on the 18th of March, and the remainder into an adjoining piece of the same 

 land on the 3d of April, after a crop of turnips fed off by sheep, and plowed for seed early ia 

 March. The earlier sown was reaped on the 15th August, and the later sown on the 18th 

 of the same month, having begun also at the latter date to reap his autunni-sowu Wheat. — 

 Apparently there was no difference in these crops ; but on threshing them the produce of 

 the autumn sown proved to be only thirty-three bushels per acre, while that of the spring 

 sowii was forty bushels. He had sown this new spring variety every year since, and had 

 generally the same quantity per acre as from the autumn-sown Wheats. He had never found 

 the crop deficient, excepting when he had been unable to get a fine tilth, after feeding oft" 

 turnips with sheep, with a subsequent dry summer. In a trial last spring, Mr. Halcomb grew 

 in the former case, from two bushels of seed per acre, thirty-two bushe's ; and, in the latter, 

 from thi-ee bushels of seed per acre, on the adjoining ridge and sown at the same time, forty 

 bushels of grain, which proved, to his surprise, of superior weight by 7 lbs. per sack. He 

 had never grown more than forty-one bushels per acre of tliis wheat, but he had been told by 

 other parties of their having gi'own, on superior land, forty-eight busliels, and in one instance, 

 fifty-six bushels. The price of this new variety in Devizes market was usually rather above 

 that of the autumn Wheats. Mr. Halcomb conceived that its greatest advantages would be 

 found in its suitableness for soils subject to bhght. The last season, on land where the 

 autumn wheats were scarcely worth cutting, the " April " AVheat, to which Mr. Halcomb 

 then called the attention of the Council, was estimated at forty bushels per acre. He thought 

 also, that from its early maturity it woidd be found servicealjle for making good deficiencies 

 of plant in the autumn sown. The Council ordered their thanks to be returned to Mr. Hal- 

 comb for the favor of this communication. 



ARTIFICIAL MANURES. 



It would seem by the following, which we cut from a late Mark-Lane Ex 

 press, that we have yet much progress to make before we come up with the 

 farmers of England in the preparation of substitutes for barn-yard and other or- 

 dinary manures : 



Subjoined are the present prices of several sorts of manure : 



Nesbilt's ]\Ianiires (prepared by the London 

 Manure Co.) £8 to £14 per ton, according to 

 crop. 



Agricnltural salt 30s. per ton. 

 Alkalies 289. and 42s. per cwt. 

 Boast & Co.'s (Bow) inorganic manures, from 



68. to lis. per cwt., according to crop. 

 Boast's guano £9 9b. per ton. 

 Carbon 12s. per qr. 

 Chie fou 21s. per cwt. 

 Chloride fime 28b. per cwt. 

 Clarke's compost £3 12s. 6d. perhbd., sufficient 



for three acres. 

 Fothergill's gypsum 358. per ton. 

 Fothergill's phosphate of lime £8 10s. per ton. 

 Graves £6 10s. per ton. 

 Guano, Peruvian. £9 9s.; Bolivian £9 9s.; 



African £6 6s. to £7 10s. per ton, according 



to analysis and quantity. 

 Gypsum 308. per ton. 

 Highly concentrated manure 30s. per qr. 

 Humus 148. per qr. 

 Bone-dust 18s. 6d. per qr. 

 Half-inch bone 17s. 6d. per qr. 

 Hunt's stuff graves 3s. Gd. per cwt. 

 Hunt's new fertilizer 13r. 4d. per qr. 

 J. T. Hunt's artificial guano £9 per ton. 

 Manure powder 16s. per qr. 

 Muriate of lime 68. per cwt. 

 Muriate of ammonia 258. per cwt. 

 New-Bristol manure 89. per qr. 

 Nitrate of soda £14 10s. to £15 per ton. 

 (1114) 



Nitrate of potash (saltpetre) £26 to £28 pr ton. 



Patent disinfected manure £9 per ton. 



Petre salt £2 per ton. 



Potter's guano £9 per ton. 



Preparation for turnip-fly 10s. 6d. per pakt. suf- 

 ficient for three acres. 



Rags £4 to £4 10s. per ton. 



Rape cake £6 per ton. 



Rape dust £6 Cs. per ton. 



Soap ashes IO.9. per ton. 



Soda ash 12s per cwt. 



Spence & Co.'s urated bone manure £8 pr ton. 



Sulphate of soda 6s. per cwt. 



Sulphur for destroying the worm on turnips 12s. 

 per cwt. 



Sulphuric acid l|d. per lb. 



Superphosphate of fime 7s. 6d. per cwt. ; £7 

 per ton. 



The Liverpool Abattoir Company's animalized 

 manuring powder £2 10s. per ton. 



The urate of the London Manure Company £4 

 48 per ton. 



Willey dust £4 4s. per ton. 



Wolverhampton compo.st (Alexander's) 12?. 

 per qr. subject to carriage to London, or for- 

 warded from "Wolverhampton. 



