Culture of spring Wheat. tS/ 



to deliver in a just account of the produce ; a few days, however, will enable 

 me to do it. But whether this delay will exclude me the premium or not, I shall 

 most readily give the Board every information in my power, and cheerfully submit 

 to their determination, only stating, that from the lateness of the harvest being got 

 in, I have not been enabled to get the spring wheat threshed out, without neglect- 

 ing other parts of my business. 



I cannot, however, flatter myself the produce of the twenty-two acres and a half 

 will be more than twelve loads of marketable wheat. 



Our common was inclosed in 1803 : in September of that year I grubbed up the 

 furze, and in the spring of 1804 ploughed five acres of it very deep, and planted 

 potatoes, which yielded above four hundred bushels per acre. In the spring of 1 805 

 this land was sown with spring wheat, on the 11th day of April. 



Three other acres of this field was, in the year 1804, sowed with hog peas, upon 

 one ploughing, and produced a very good crop. These three acres were ploughed 

 in February, 1805, ''"'^ "" ''^^ ^^^^ ^^V of April sown with spring wheat. 



Eight other acres of this land was broke up in January, 1804, and sowed v/ith 

 turnips in June, and fed off wiih sheep early in spring 1805; then sown with spring 

 •wheat on the 11th day of April. The above sixteen acres are in one field. The 

 soil light sandy loam. The crops ripened nearly at the same time : that sowed in 

 May was quite as good and as forward as that sown in April. 



For experiment only I unturfed an acre and an half more of the common, took 

 away the turf, and upon one ploughing sowed the spring wheat on the 1st day of 

 April, 1805. The seed came up very well, but went off very fast in about a month 

 after, and was a very light crop at harvest. This soil was a strong loam, inclinable 

 to clay, very cold and wet. 



Five other acres, which had been in cultivation for many years, was at the time 

 it came into my hands (by the inclosure, 1803), an oat stubble; had been much 

 neglected, and of course both poor and foul. This I summer-fallowed in 1804, 

 until the month of August, and sowed it with turnips, which were fed off with sheep 

 in spring 1805 : ploughed early in April, and sowed with spring wheat on the 19th of 

 April 1805. Three bushels of seed wheat were sown on every acre, broad-cast. 



The wheat that was sown upon the common is all of a very dark colour, is very 

 cold ; it weighs fifty-six pounds and a half per bushel of eight gallons, and at mar- 

 ket fifteen guineas per load was offered for it. I did not observe any appearance 



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