1 86 Mr. Coggan on the 



Mr. Sers' Letter to Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.' 



I HAVE, by the coach, sent your Honour samples both of spring and winter 

 wheat, of this year (1S05), now threshed, which your kindness will shew to the 

 Board; and of our large quantity cannot see it is injured ; it weighs as heavy as 

 any red wheat we have grown. We have sold a small time back 200 qrs. to a 

 merchant, mixed f spring wheat to ^ red of winter wheat, at full an average price 

 with us of any quantity or quality sold in our markets to merchants; and we 

 weighed several cooms, that is 4 bushels, and they weighed 17^ s/. neat each, 

 which is more than any wheat of mine has before weighed ; though the corn is not 

 Ictrge, is full, and goes close together. I fully think with you, that if winter wheat . 

 be damaged, it would be a good way to sow some spring wheat by a man about 

 Lady-day, in the vacant places, and rake it in, as it is sure to be fit to cut with the 

 winter wheat, and when threshed together, no body can tell it. 



III. 



Spring Wbeai. By John Coggan, Esq. 



JlIaving observed in the public prints, an advertisement from the Board of 

 Agriculture, dated the 12th of April, 1805, stating, " That the Board, having re- 

 ceived information from varipus districts of the benefit arising from the cultivation 

 of spring wheat, and it appearing to the Board, that at that period it might be par-t 

 ticularly useful 10 promoie that object, 



" Resolved to offer the following premiums, viz. To the person who shall, in the 

 spring of \ 805, cultivate the greatest number of acres of spring wheat, not less than 

 twenty, fifty guineas, or a piece of plate of that value; and for the next greater 

 quantity, thirty guineas, or a piece of plate of that value." 



Wishing as much as possible, under existing circumstances, to meet the Board's 

 intentions, I have sown twenty-two acres and a half of land with spring wheat, 

 seventeen and a half of which is little better than a common. Had Ihe advertise- 

 meni appeared sooner, I should have reserved land that had been long in cultiva- 

 tion for this purpose; nor is it in my power at the day appointed, namely, to-morrow, 



