SEPTEMBER. 



and whitest flour. There are also a yellow and a 

 brown lammas. 



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 productive. 



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 ot" the c;ir. 



STEEPING THE SEED. 



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 lye 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. 



November 9, 1786, marked twelve beds of good 

 sandy loam, in great heart, on a clay-marl bottom, 

 and struck drills at one foot. Prepared the seecl 

 differently for each. 



l. White velvet wheat, a year old, that was very 

 smutty: no steep or lime. 



' H h 3 9. Velvet 



