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of Mr. Jones, of the Griffin's Arms, Amersham, Bucks, 

 thirteen fine ears, all from one root, growing a foot higher 

 than the rest, each ear producing sixty grains, which, in 

 three years, have produced fifty-six quarters, weighing, it 

 was said, sixty-eight pounds per bushel. It is a fine, 

 plump, white grain, and I think likely to prove valuable 

 for some soils. I dibbled in seven bushels of it in October, 

 one bushel and a half per acre ; which has yielded 23 

 quarters. 



The alteration of the bushel from Winchester to Imperial, 

 is a loss to the farmer without being a benefit to the public. 

 The farmers were asleep in not opposing the alteration. 



PEAS are more adapted to poor than rich soils. In the 

 four, or five-course husbandry, much land had become 

 what is called clover-sick, by its frequent repetition in the 

 course of cropping ; to prevent which, peas, and another 

 crop of while grain, have been added, to make it a six- 

 course system. All pea crops require good manage- 

 ment, and a great deal of hoeing, to keep them clean. 

 I have seen more foul crops of peas than of any thing 

 else, and the mischief accruing from such foulness will 

 extend to succeeding crops. The maple is the best, 

 but still hazardous, as all peas are, to get a good crop. 

 The straw is useful fodder, when the crop is well housed. 

 The Nimble Tailors were sown a good deal in this 

 county a few years ago, but are now quite discarded, 

 being found so bitter that no cattle much liked to eat them. 

 Peas should be drilled, it is impossible to keep them any 

 thing like clean, on good land, when sowed broadcast. 



RYE. When I began farming, most of the light sandy 

 soils of this county were sown with it. Now, a crop is 

 seldom seen, it being so little in demand ; besides which, 

 it is a very exhausting crop. A small quantity sown 

 immediately after harvest, comes in most usefully, to cut 

 green, very early in the spring, for cart horses. I sowed, 

 last autumn, a few grains of foreign rye, that was much 

 superior in quality to any English. But as rye is not 

 wanted, it is perhaps not worth taking the trouble to 

 try to get a quantity of it. 



