l.S6 ON SPRING WHEAT. 



for the extraction of sugar, because the expense v/oul^ ex* 

 ceed the profit, since a hundred weight yields only about 

 two pounds of saccharine matter. 



2d, That the saccharine matter constantly retains the con- 

 sistence of treacle, and is incapable of being crystallized by 

 any known process. 



3a, That the gummy extract might be employed in medi- 

 cine as an attenuant, in consequence of its saponaceous 

 quality. 



XiV, 



On the Vulture of Spring TVheat, and tJic Use of Tincture of 

 Opium in the Diseases of Cattle: by Major Spenceu 

 Cochrane, of Muirfidd-Honfe, near Haddington^ North" 

 Britain *. 



I 



SIR, 



REQUEST the favour that you will prefent my thank* 

 to the Society of Arts, &c. for transmitthig me the 20th vo- 

 lume of their Transactions, containing my former experi- 

 Advantages of nicnts on the culture of wheat sown in the spring. I have 

 spring wheat. ^\Y^^^Q \^^^ further proofs of the advantage resulting from that 

 practice. 



Notwithstanding the extreme cold weather, which we had 

 here during the months of March, April, and May, I never 

 saw ray spring wheat look better, particularly four acres, 

 part of a field of strong clay, which I was prevented from 

 sowing in October, when I sowed my other wheat, by wet 

 weather commencing. 



The whole field consists of twenty acres, and received one 

 ploughing after drilled beans. I sowed on the 14th of 

 March the four acres, with four bolls or two quarters of com- 

 mon wheat, on the same earth or farrow wiiich the land got 

 in the month of October. 

 Should bs In the event of land having been fallowed and sufficiently 



cleaned before winter, and v/et weather setting in so as to pre- 

 vent wheat being sown at the usual time, I recommend from 

 experience, that the wheat be sown in the spring on the win- 



* Trans, of Soc. of Arts, vol. xxv. p. S9, The siWei medaLof the So- 

 «iety was voted to Major Cochraag. 



ter 



sown on win- 

 ter furrow. 



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