562 THE GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, [June 16, 1860. 
is ecially subj | in colour, and furnished with a stout beard, The straw | readers to know that this committee which has arriva 
fags aa Ra Ghoul’ De bed tn eding it : is of considerable length, strong, elastic, and often | at so extraordinary a result consisted of = John pe . 
viene breeding animals on this account, | tinged with pink on the plant rep ae a | ley, Sir yr Miles, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Chandos Wren 
(To be continued.) poe red in colour, long shap large Hoskyns, Sir John Johnstone, Mr. Dyke Acland, and 
The’ variety is’ a true autumn Wheat, ripening a “the | the Speaker of the House of Co ommons. These gentlem men 
et Ms fe other sor ts, of the class cultivated in the | chose for g \ssicak 
A NEW VARIETY OF WHEAT. othia } 
Mr. PATRICK SHERIFF, of East Lothian, has lately Scotland. ; Sahar 
ublished a corres ndence with the Hi ghland na tl d icult s Tato s 
x Pty her their “ “Medion? Pe iy tertained d Whe “He g 
variety he und rene ered r gra 0 ne 
“ Society’ a aoa MEON was aotred ae’ prs ‘of aie my experience “of 1857 and the following ye when enjoying the of otium cum dignita ate as „Bu sar of 
kind, and t he award es an inferior prize was a| Red as well as a White bearded Whea t respectively college. Nor was it for want of fitter candidates th 
e new diety cultivated by him. | yielded the finest grains in the collection which I had | chose him ; for they had a mong oh of distinguished 
r. Sheriff is well known for his previous labours in Siig under a parity of circumstances, the error | names tochoose from, and a in Mr. Morton, 
this field, and agriculture owes the Hopetoun Wheat | rega arding ‘this appendage e be ecame | oby. vio us. _ The bea rd amah — per Pili 3 (it may be longer for 
and the Hopetoun Oat, and other new sorts of agricul- | or awn of ght I know) has always tood amongst the foremost 
tural plants, to his intelligent research and perseve- | to the outer paler or chaff, and nót to the skin of the | | in the van of agricultural | literature; ae has earned 
rance. Pio following is the report he had drawn up :— | rai Be Sere me Conus agriculturists throughout the 
improvement of plants is interesting: to the | varying from 40 to 50 degrees, and its strength € g js of the lan nd; > who has secu red the 
agricalturiet and the e gar rdener, _whe ther the 
A ciel seri At 
ai iter. 
or eps ema s—one who so 
I ‘believe i in 1836, and who in all that lng i tine | 
g elf ae particula: 
But itt literatu: 
d by wind or moisture. When the crop is| the m in various w ays for the promotion of "agriculture, i 
race, and the Cereal Grasses are so important to the | | driven to and fro by the violence of the “Wheat the oe has in his Cyclops ædia s$ g can 
g o | f the Pe te pied the sho cs of the ears, and | marshal such force: paek in the 
form one of the leading objects of agricult at the “being whi iss tur ae; Kes been om 
associations. f with bea ardles s varieties The elastic’ city | of the | agricultural we ering has filled with éclat ae Edin: 
“Man possesses but little control over the Cereals. | peatata atts tends to promote a circulation of air in burgh Chair of Agriculture during the illne 
However skilful the farmer-may be in the sien | | bound sheaf, po ate. bo sprouting of the | professor; has edited ever since its establishment the 
of the soil and in the application of manures, he c Loita in wet seaso and „hasi ing the hardeni ning o a paper in which, ae letter oll oe ieie hor of 
produce no labia change in any variety of the. Oreal them in fine asira di i act rare! Ibe iting 
The Wheat plant which is represented in the relics of | beard “injtivtoti to the Wheat plant, oe in Ae fickle | the Society’s Journ al “The Gon i 
pime of the nations of the East is the Egyptian variety | climate of Scotland it is found to valuable of the, Royal Ageoultaral” Saatiin tn may be assured 
(Triticum compositum) of the present time, and there | appendage n oe of fie 
is no aaee t to show that either the oldest or newest |  “ This Wheat r NENE- the well-known Ss p stasrardihip in this matter must be giv The 
kind in British agriculture has undergone a change in| in ¢ i 
any respect. It may be = that some of the kinds aeni HRES H ot 
whi 
he crop when ANNANN and pra Tt has di rC 
h have been: recent]; not inferior to any variety | and now s of peace it Pes in i: eve ery 
those which were formerly ccltveied but the excel- | of Red “Whe at pisent cultivated in Britain. Priehedeia Y D Varti away the birthright of the able 
lences of such varieties were stamped by E R ib gh of land have been sown with this ae etd a ys or a Fra of pottage for a friend. It i 
time of their origin, and it may with confidence Ee Wheat e present month for crop 1860. very edll-wisher his- country 
stated that there is no way of i moter he Cereals | Ha rer Aini g h- 1859. on beer June 13. [We are bound to 
bu ut by cultivating new varieties. The ne tempts whe publish the letter 3 of kno own and _trustw orthy: corre- 
Wheat plant shall now be Da 
detailed. this, notwi ithstanding its“personal ara and not- 
“ In early life I obtained from the late John Claudius Home Correspondence withstanding one or two errors of detail which do not 
Loudon, well known for, his = Jouraits i the Royal in, Society.— | affect the argum it has 
gricul Perm me to ect Mr. Girdwood, whose speech I | reached us. 
ded t: t l vith I was not | Price of Labourin Northumberland.—Takin: ng as my 
of the it, ah after years of experience few of them | a` cai eens “for tha office of Seer retary to the Royal | guide the maximun rate of wages paid to able-bodied. 
were found to be qorpenial to the soil a ng climate of Agrien sn Society, et for es entip anda 
roa t Lothian, and still fewer REA a place in the rnal. ertainly had ser emt bes allowance to the hind for the bondager’s board, 
he farm, ith Gird ti va lodgings, an ath tome expenses which such a form—of 
afterwards directed my attention to artificial im- | quaintance with that gentleman, I should Tavak omi] agreement ca to devolve upon the hind, I am at 
ion by fecundating florets with pollen from EE TIY vE AEA R Ge owen a to what grounds T have gi i 
anotht which was generally pli thout | stra: gainst—to use a mild term—the wears Sb eer for stating that “it — 
difficulty. The grains which were produced by this | perpetrat ed by the Totincal ‘Committe with e to cavil at the statements of Mr. Gre: à 
procos germinated H ely, and gave life to a plant | unanimity worthy of a good re vestr, aii Tivit raas varied from 57, 10s. to 6l. 10s. for ae 
hich at first seemed to partake of the characteristics|I shall not say more of Ayi ape ence for | summer half-year, and from 2/. to 2d. 15s. for the winter Jy, 
of both of the parent varieties, but upon sowing ine the office of editor (for which I competed 1850, till stg the u two years they 
ay uce a second time different kinds appeared i in the | the idea that Mr. Mor would h 9 127. per annui raa ced to cash 
fatelie g| it on the te ES than that an influential member of | the in t} a 
ment, must therefore appear as 
8 payment: 
generation. The Tks also fell off i in fruitfulness and the vise iano Committee wrote to a friend of mine which Mess panne poe in ‘the sans rel of the 
ultimately dwindled Paes com Ppeti barrenness.. Ex- | “ that ther couie be no doubt of Mr. Sidney’s qualifi- | Book of the Farm . 743, and m: eq 
con oat de that a variety | cations. “Bat I ha ave been informed by. a member of} per week ; but Ta Pw a loss how 
capable o yr tl ke 467. 15s. pib the hind 12s. per week, and th e bon- - 
is not Tikely by ha rien obtained 1 by cross impregnation, and | grounds as Mr. E rtòn’s—we had both been “ profes- | dager’s wages, board, lod lodgings, and other incidental |) 
that the mer aaa ent of the Wheat plant must be | sional pao Perret ae newspapers,” that is, we aoe Taking the same scale’ of payment for the |" 
attained by c re not amateu mat e had a ge of us| past year which ended on May 15, the average prices’ of | | 
“Th “ graduated at an E: a User. ” Idon under- grain during the 52 weeks ending on Sept. 24, 2s. 6d. Ii 
which are ge nik ag nown as sport pi bus toes, 1s. . 
been found t to retain all their pro erties on re} ee not having voted. Was there a vote In Commnittee ? At the | for bonda agers’ wages, I m pay- 
tion from for any le Ep first eee a ak ppt at which ie bie of the Com- | ment equal to 542. 16s. 9d. So ro 3s. and 271. 4s. 9d. |, 
this way produ Mungoswell’s Wheat, | m confirmed, it is that the President | are . see ie rates of wages in 1850, and in 1860 | 
i ren awarded pao we r. Morton, | up t 15. Much diver Ama: ing was caused 
land Society’s silver medal in the year 1829 m | proposed by Mr. Hudson and seconded b Mr. pe, ionat. En, nglish farmers who pay piopi : 
pabor sos 
tO 
oe 
e 
e amen e put 
anged he one ‘more 'shionabie, and yi sang as a Ree of form—without calling for a |“ N., opinion of Mrs Grey’s 
tten l i mon arts ain like truth. As | statements, a and you appended the following to “ NA” 
ittia the notice of | for the silence of £ the Council, ust admit that it is | remarks: frot that tbe hind |) 
of Fraser's, East rns, What could they pak exce Maho rs labour, s 6da 
nd at water to provide for a gentleman whom they could day in harvest tne 1s. in summer and 10d. in wint 
à ini ie "eae Now, Mr. oe rood have been of 
: Bs Journal | Commit 
mi $ Akr. 
’s gold meda m the year 1841 
The ver tact E and | extra hands plo; t 
oskyns not voting in so as all com- | work which does not require is 
mittee _ establishes „fully in my opinion | the accuracy bondage rs at 1s, per day. So I should like to be 
i G: 
Á of these | precede “By the befo 
es retain their properties nipit op ee site iPs Half-Yearly gyri 1e | tures of cari ss or misrepr 
presale’ time. ae contains in the two last hs ext tion.” Agricultural Gazette, p p 
“In order to carry out the views of improving the | n Sanok of English a once obscure and ali stated in the Agricultural Gazette 
Wheat plant which had aati to be nf ya with | grandijoquent. S. Sidney, Centrat Farmers’ Club, | the headi g “Farm Labour o: 
mres & collection of Aaa made in 1856, co n- | June Ez ater part of the manual labour which i 
taining named varieties well as sports which Tl | The s Bäitorstipof the Royal P Mee Society's | with the threshing and dressing of corn by machine 
personally selected in different alites of England and | Journal.— footnote to Mr. Gira. | the phi the poe into the carts when cleaning ov 
Scotland, : and the whole, numbering 70 sorts, letter in last week’s Paper at all affects the} the cw the turning the manure 
Pgs ie dina : T pori harvest o of 1857, | fanarin ‘filed by tha t gentleman. Sins of omi the singling, 
half a do fies samples 0 the re i ee ella, 00k and t ted I TE 
the collection were Biura before persons of skill in k does it matter whether a man wh s had wonton caters em oo oo aa : nee ai 
d imp ortant du Mente o n an pet it badiy by | And with the e exception of the cutting and harv 
the grain wrongfully or by meg i it alto- | the hay and the corn, when the quisit 
bein the best in tality The esis chaste crop m mA of Mr. h are empl Mra ei p 
hel 
18 
store i ciated the ake ak ordeal, and a gain an award Mr. 
ést in the pert, ear. This variety forms the | of Mr. 
je tf the hoeske pee “ 
of the Agricultural Gazette, 
of the subject, their connection w fe the Journal itself, | Tam wrong in nr that manual labour isch 
tt Wheat was selected in 1836 from a ficla of | and their a tion; the other members of the com-|in’ the bonda district than in the counties” | 
unters on the farii of Tynefield, in the nna of | mittee must at once have * yielded i any well défined | Norfolk and Dimi Will your Tyneside reporter 
Danbat, East:Lothian. The ear is long, the chaff is nad | opinion exprassed by them. £fmay beinteresting to your |take up the gauntlet? It is self-evident that tle 
