tgS Mr. Speechly on the 



2. It is highly probablcj that the success of spring wheat on clover lea, may 

 hereafter be found to depend more on the coming season, than autumnal sown 

 wheat. If the following season should prove dry, the crop would, one may well 

 suppose, be more hazardous in the former than in the latter. In a dry summer, 

 it may seem that spring w heat would have a better chance upon land that has been 

 longer upon tillage than upon clover lea, 



3. Turnip and rape fallow, where the soil is not too light, seem highly proper 

 for spring wheat. 



4. Pease and bean fallow may also in many instances prove eligible for spring 

 wheat, and especially after having been ploughed early in the autumn, and benefited 

 by the winter's rains and frost. 



5. In the common course of husbandry, the close, Experiment II. should have 

 been sown with barley, and at the same time have been lain down in seeds. 

 Therefore, when the spring wheat was harrowed in, at the last light harrowing, 

 clover seeds, &c. were also sown. The ground is now well set, and the seeds 

 have prospered equal to anv I ever saw. 



6. The difference in produce, in point of quantity, between Experiment I. on 

 clover lea, and Experiment II. on turnip fallow, ought not to be considered as any 

 data to go upon in future experiments ; because the superior quality and state of 

 the soil in the close. Experiment II. might reasonably have been expected to have 

 given nearly such decided difference. 



7. In the application of top dressings for spring wheat it may seem, that in a 

 long continued dry season, the most eligible way would be by applying them at the 

 same time when the wheat is sown. Only once lightly harrowing after may suffice. 



8. But in a moist and continued rainy season, top dressing would probably 

 prove to act more powerfully by being sown upon the surface of the soil ; because 

 top dressings are most particularly calculated to invigorate the coronal roots of 

 the wheat plants, and thereby to cause them to tiller well. 



g. When top dressings are sown on the surface of the soil, the best time of apply- 

 ing them, it may seem, would be when the wheat is grown to the height of three or 

 four inches ; because if laid on before the blades of the corn crop afford a kind of 

 shelter, the finer particles thereof arc liable either of being exhaled by the sun, or 

 blown away by high winds, which frequently occur at that season. Moist and 

 showery weather, at that critical period, will aways be found of the highest 



