66 TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



By the comparisons of the weights of English seed, with 

 that produced from the first and second St. Helena crops, it has 

 been seen that the second crop yielded heavier and larger corn 

 than the English, in the proportion of 47^ to 50^, and that the 

 first crop, gave only 40j grains weight to the 100 barley-corns. 

 Further trials may determine in wliat respects the barley wheat 

 may be affected here by the climate and soil ; for having beheld 

 so extraordinary a change, as has taken place in the quality of 

 fir timber, (to a resemblance of pale mahogany) from pineaster 

 trees raised from English seed, who can tell bnt other vegetable 

 productions may likewise undergo (though less perceptibly) a 

 similar change ? In the weight of common barley, I have stated 

 that the St. Helena produce has been found more weighty than 

 the seed from which it was raised ; and the following notes will 

 prove that it maintains this superiority. 



1809. March 14th. — 100 English barley-corns weighed 62 grs. 



100 St. Helena ditto - 71^ 



Difference - 9y 

 The above were kept in a dry place, and again weighed nine- 

 teen months afterwards. 



1810. Nov. 1st. — 100 English barley corns weighed 61 grs. 

 100 St. Helena, ditto - . 69 



Difference - 8 



Barley wheat is therefore in every point of view, a grain that 

 merits the attention of all our cultivators ; for by common 

 industry it might be raised in sufficient quantity to supply the 

 island breweries, by which, those sums tliat are now remitted to 

 England (from i:6000. to c£8000. annually for malt,) might be 

 retained here and participated among the landholders. Surely 

 persons who duly reflect on these important facts, and who com- 



