1 (JO Mr. Calthrop on the 



Tuesday in February i8o5.— It is required that the soil, quantity of seed, sort of 

 wheat, time of sowing, produce and value of the crop, and the effects of any 

 distenfiptr which may attack, the plants, be reported. 



" For the next greatest quantify thirty guineas, or a piece of plate of that value. 



^' For the next greatest quantity twenty guineas, or a piece of plate of that value. 



" The Board has been informed that the true spring wheat may be sown success- 

 fully so late as the end of April. Several correspondents on the subject of the 

 last harvest observed, that the spring wheat had escaped the mildew in parts of the 

 country where the autumnal had not, and yielded better. 



" To the person who shall report to the Board the result of the most satisfactory 

 experiments on spring wheat, which shall ascertain the soil, the sort of wheat, the 

 time of sowing, the produce and value, the comparative advantages of this and 

 common wheat, and any other circumstances useful to be known, a piece of plate 

 of the value of twenty pounds. — To be produced on or before the first Tuesday in 

 April 1807." 



From the foregoing advertisement, I am tempted to submit the following account: 



An Account of Spring Wheat, the Produce of 82 Acres 14 Perches of Land in 

 Gosbcrton Fen, (-which has been inclosed six Tears last Lady-Day), cultivated 

 by J. G. Calthrop, of Gosberton, in the County of Lincoln, in the Spring of 



1805. 



Soil. 

 Moor upon clay 

 Moor upon sand 



Total - 82 o 14 



Sort of IVbeat. — Horned or rough-eared spring wheat. 



Ouaniiiy of Seed. — 20 Quarters, which is 8 pecks per acre. The 14 perches 

 were included in the 20 quarters. 



Produce. qrs. c. s. 



Good wheat - - - - 413 * 3 



Refuie, or hinder ends - - 26 1 2 



Total - 440 1 1 



