MODES OF SOWING THE WHEAT. 59 



point see a recent article on Thin Seeding by the Old Norfolk 

 Farmer in " The Journal of Agriculture," Nos. 77, 78, New 

 Series, Blackwood.) Mr. Bogle estimated that the plants re- 

 quired for one hundred acres could be raised on a plot of one 

 acre. And we may here state that, planted at distances of 9 

 inches each way, 77,440 plants will be required for an acre. 

 A very remarkable feature connected with the mode of trans- 

 planting is the enormous increase we can obtain by it when 

 we divide the original plant, giving each part to a separate 

 whole, care being, of course, taken to have at least one rootlet 

 to each divided part transplanted. There is a well-authen- 

 bicated experiment carried out by a Mr. Charles Miller of 

 Cambridge in 1769, who obtained from one single grain 

 the enormous produce of 2 1,1 09 ears, the corn from which 

 measured three pecks and a half, and weighed forty-seven 

 pounds. This was obtained by the following mode : On 

 ihe 2d of June, 1766, the wheat, common red was sown, 

 and on the 8th of August a single plant was taken up. 

 This was divided into 18 parts, and each part planted 

 separately. These tillering well, some were taken up in 

 September and again divided, and the remainder were al- 

 lowed to remain in the ground a little longer, till between 

 that time and the middle of October the whole were taken 

 up and divided, the result of the final division being the 

 obtaining of sixty-seven plants. These sixty-seven plants 

 were allowed to tiller all winter, and in spring, between 

 the middle of March and the 12th of April, the whole 

 were taken up and divided, till 500 plants these plants 

 were the final planting which produced in the aggregate 

 the enormous number of ears noted above 21,109 ears. 

 Some of the roots produced one hundred ears, and many 

 of the ears produced measured seven inches in length, and 

 contained between sixty and seventy grains. Wheat is so 

 far as our experiments have proved, and they, are corrobo- 

 rated by those of others by no means a difficult plant to 

 transplant; it takes kindly to the ground, and stands even 

 a sharp frost well. The produce of wheat transplanted in 

 the autumn, say October, is greater than that transplanted 



