Acorsr 19, 1805.) THE GARDENERS CHRONIOLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. : Tel 
REPORTS OF THE HARVEST. 
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS —( Continued from p. 7159 
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COUNTY. WHEAT. | BARLEY. OATS. | BEANS. PEAS. | POTATOS. | HAY. AD. TE: “ш INAME AND ADDRESS, 
| | GENERAL, 
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РФА Averago Under average . 5 p balra ore | None None | Full average [Scarcely average| One-third Aug. 16  |John Pitcairn, Kinnaird 
| n hi а стор 
Above average | Underaverage | Under average Average Average | ery promising Good Early sown Aug.18 |Б, Russell, Pilmuir 
bad É 
Not quite Over average ; | Very good Good 
average best of Corn 
то | К 227 
Good Moderate Good Good Light crop, well m L4 " Aug. 15 бду Nicholson, Shir- 
secured и Gangi, Leeds 
Much below an мег ariy a 1o Now Thos C. Booth, Warlaby 
average MAN T 
Average; same Good m eq Aug. 16 пой, B. Dixon, Darling- 
| aslast year ; no 
ENGLAND. 
М ........ Generally good ; 
ровна thin on cold ? 
ВІВЕ......| Thin o und, 
о but val Topped 
Shor verage 
| 
Average erop ; Much below | |Below average UE 
— average 
prem veie ly 
ood Fai Middling Good Fair — | 
та 
growing ag egiin 
Very ne |About the 224 James Wilkinson, Whitby 
Earl € Recent rains Now John Parkin, Idridgehay 
NM late haveim roved| 
ngood |them low 
G 
DERBYSHIRE ....| Below average дутар: Averago Not svfücient| Average 
| own 
NOTTINGHAM ....| Above average 
j 
Full average Under average | Good Good Very good Two-thirds of a Mingel үч, Now C. Paget, Rauddington 
| erop better ; | Grange 
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| tter 
MONMOUTH .. .... A fair averago | A fair average 
| * Very promisin Light Very various Avg. 10 R. G. Relph, Usk 
ur Good | Inferior e 4 H ч Ri cmi 
Short bni well| Good Late sorts мойта to Mangels very Aug. 7 — Btratton, Walls 
red | promising quantity;  |good; Swedes Court, Bristol 
— ^ va ir 
| оа 
| Bad Good | Good Good Good Aug.1 (William Lavender, Bid- 
am 
| 
EDFORD ........| Not average | 
denh: 
Under average | Good crop | Average crop | Looking well; Well saved ; | Good A great deal |George Turner, Beacon 
slightly diseased light crop cut e e Downes, Exeter 
Btacke 
| 
TT «es Very good ; Average Turnips bad Aug.15  |Johu Creagh, Tarmons, 
mend never better Tarbert 
rage ide Good ; blight Average ug.5  |Frandis A. Т 
appearing 
None iddling Good 
DEVONSHIRE ....| Much blighted;| Nearly avorage | 
under average 
KERRY..... АА Сооа Middling. 
CORK ............| Overaverage hort А winame, 
indient = rap 
od Much has About 1, Ki 
failed September 
Good; e 
зате grown | 
[Not m h grown Good None 
UBLE-EARED WHEAT. arket. “The person who met зр: it," jd says, | tion every stage exhibited between ена бете = 
а of opening up a field of inquiry, І send «carefully рае every grain, n ^ of a — wi M DP у two ore branchlets 
E. the hitherto barren results of my experimenting reproducing monstrosity. As. 3 half w 
with twin-eared W been ELM е4 was unsuccessful, A. hey seve do AR Ur e T 
rar upon m straw. And I should be glad if | seems to be no absolute rule why a predisposition 
юше abler vegeta! ogi 
eget; n. physiol gist than myself would de mber ai ile Gar ees re "ah ч е Correspon ече 
i ear of Ла к Birds: 
the 
e ear, phe p the straw) 
hes eed" I 
forget in what yea of a 
һа: t а bird 
н 1 в somet ев | Wi eat hav ving additional pe re "branching. from fid bali ноода Б GNE n 
originated їп а Zusus nature : is not the Purple Beech Well one his toll —the burrowin бно, 
d i К the predisposition might be Re aT ы че if ay That ould devastate our Ms aud fields. 
uch mes 74 uy 
^ : 
in 
І am incined to think that the many-branched hi i 
jan Mummy EL. (Triti- | of бысто Barley іп ers' Chronicle of Benrching for grains, ve the Sparrow bold. 
ram ; $ some Although they hunt bim own and сы iu аар" 
«um multiplici ,Spici) arose fro monstro: Y e yen 
v If, burrowing in thy stack, he eats 
ting a pri Now, dou tie. Saij are "m very great rarities in our Ail kill the vermin for thee, every buds 
8; ave grown some of this Wheat, as neighbourhood ; our gleaning And do thy worming most efficiently. 
that i iť т! Ja tliem up, some кран бони wives immediately throwing | зе гч Aa peleg — de rg 
Teverting, I supposed, to to the original char dac an nrk as unlucky pa are whose err аге The pesti fent Dock and Thistle thins for theo ; 
rosity had sprung. Still this incidid nequa al more than ba! aby a at a time! By And the poor swallow only insects еа 
off tuity f ht t Never thy fruit. Then let them live in paon; 
beneath thy ea 
is Me 
have been due to difference of c Wheat that g y 
might be mick.named < hen-and- chickens" in xen ,| me, I hay гине in obtaining а t€ many speci- ieu DNE feel he 
not Caring to throw out half so y young off-shoots | mens ; са? or three arate years I have sown the No тагу nente, ый 
in Lincolnshire, grains rina plot i in the — v: A without А бод аа A hn) Better taught 
There is » ius that double-eared Wheat would be | getting one monstrosity, all the deg ng gue 
valuable if we could once get Icone What w hed ditary | common single-eared Whea е harvest of 1863 bacc nre qned mre emt aro ду frianda 
and еза in type, supposing the тау of the | furnished me with no fever than 67 of the *'sports;" The saucy d 1l he dares 
grain to be good, The nventor, if he | they were sown together in a plot iu a Wheat-field, but Thy поба currants, also eais 
could not "a 1 а I could els "find in their produce any For End — Sr toy friend; 
; Yossom to 
ke u 
Pep ing to ity of the Ba d х ете та 
quite possible to-obtain a variety of Wiat that | spikelets. In in ear in р, 
Vill accumulate а ра proportion of its total weight z in a bound sheaf; but I am of opinion that 100 acres | The gi t Fre rench nat turalist M. Florent Prevost made . 
m grain „than any other. Wheat produce a great number every year. Three 
а Е found that the i ncrease of dry weight of the d ud were y gleaners in one|]lected апй p: s is of y species, 
Wheat plants between oreng time and harvest | feld of 22 a I do see why the gleanings | taking them at diferent сЕ of the year, and at 
an 77 ts, | should ош а зеен е врог an | various stages of their е comes to the 
merely dried by long exposure to the air, weighed ав the gent i crop; and if the "ar ti ey ar ~ in 
: Thes 238 oz.; spike and chaff, 5.4 n to a quarter of a bushel per а and the en destruction arvæ and i s generally 
: 2 0 acre, there vw thus (probably) о, кч aie mrt Beer radial т.д injary 
Bat ‘these relative amounts of grain, wW, &c., a 480 double-eared straws in d: field. t these|t ман - ДЕ all of € more 
duc апы ^ч ^M just depends Spon ds abit. should have евса о in the mowing, de | Mti enn , This i s high. praise. 
fo, o Plant, which may become the habit of a variety ; | gathering, tying, stooking, pit ed loading, stacking, | They cert ы s 
our fields abound with all 9 of > oportions | threshing, is not surprising, w en we consider the |f farm crops, and гота evident to every beholder ; but 
тееп Weights of grain and s I find ears of of ears among which (if ther 94 ey koeubi + tai 
60 upon 5 fet. length os E straw, and ears of | were intermingled., At the rate of 640.000 gra ns per ће good уй do. The rook comes in for no small 
Lg e aug length of s р He is a great gormandiser, we know, of 
rers oie ай space, dn т can hardly n pode bus of 6 double ears bein ng | very many kinds of food: corn corn, pulse, fesh, Ash, seeds, ars 
Жм | Erbaa таа than another. I до not know | - sra eq 23,466 common ones. It is quite | all palatable to Mus and occasionally he will ipee d 
latu sort of Wheat t naturally running most to ear | possible ам ой the dnce these doubl I| dine off chicken, the dt ig nger t eMe ter e but his 
р i i think g ab! — some of пешке" from grai grains of | taste Dex «еу we [or TE 
rs than with one large ear; butif I | dou porti mary ears, however, | caterpillare, worms, min 
M with a a bo эү will | ghe half as much се а ming аз ёо prevent any annual increase | іє indefatigable, however, in pgs will 
shall Da than another. roportion to the straw, I of the others, — E E o T caseif the double- | denude a field of e Асан to get 
Map а benefactor to din , or, t any rate, to t rom the bulk of the seed. | at the grub lying at voce ore 1 Tow equally 
rs M a tion i i I inclose drawings (tani о фе а few of the speci- | divides censure with the rook, and by many he is 
of mankind, whose stimulated 
fibrine instead of gluten and starch. mens now in m twin-ears, ene | thought to be the most He is no doubt 
Ville cared т while ДЕ iko най with акаба: development of "f I straw, and one triple- — са — iiri трд tiom m 
; i 5 instance I ever heard of. m; but then from his very nev 1 
accesa, IT ; there being some slight chance of | branched ear, the on - the butterfüy, cockchaf. 
Ga „and nearly all е insect tribe are 
хр ге failed before me. In the|  Linclore one branched. and one double-ear, 
Wing of «Tij toad — ores is at Jast attain for and- devoured by him, to say but 
jel » , y ч 
В. Booth, of Care n тте Wheat," from Мг. W. berti experiment until su 7s € atle o th аон 
, and hope 
Wheats will follow up my | worm, 
ed. 
ew. In Clarke, Long Butto ng. 
ийм, Henslow б antiounced DM оаа З eid pond. cz ANNI П т. d the injury and mischief he perpetrates, The linnet 
У» grown two or three years before near Stow- | There i is їп е drawings sent with this communica- ів probab y next in our low estimate of birds; he іза 
