WHEAT. 



cold land, though a coarfe grain, felling at an inferior price 

 in the markets. And the bearded or rivet kind of wheat is 

 likewife thought, by fome cultivators, to be the mod adapted 

 to fuch kinds of rich lands as have been newly broken up, 

 and where there may be danger of the crop lodging from too 

 great luxuriance, as it pofTefTes the property of a greater 

 firmnefs of ftraw or ftem than the common kinds, as fug- 

 gefted above. 



The white and the red are the forts the moft elleemed in 

 general among the polled kind ; the former affording the 

 whiteft flour, but the latter has the greater produce in moft 

 cafes. 



It is obferved, that of the feveral forts of wheat that are 

 in cultivation in the county of Suffex, the velvet-eared is 

 preferred in the weald part of it, as having by much the 

 thinneft ll<in : they there call \ljluffed. It weighs on the 

 average from fifty-nine to fixty pounds the bufhel. It is 

 faid by the bed judges that the -while Jlujf on good land 

 anfwers beft, as being the moft faleable : but that on poor 

 land, fubjecl to poppies, the ftrong-ftrawed fort that over- 

 powers this weed ftiould certainly be fown. 



There is a fort of wheat that obtains much on the 

 Down parts, which is what they call Clark wheat. It is 

 not bearded ; has a red bloffbm, red chaff, and red ftraw ; 

 white grain, as already feen ; the fample coarfe, being in 

 price under the fineft forts. It is, however, a great yielder, 

 and requires to be cut forward. 



The Chldham luhhe or hedge wheat is much in cultiva- 

 tion, being introduced by Mr. Woods of this diftrift. Upon 

 trial it is found to be a very fine fort : it is white, of a very 

 fine berry, and remarkably long in the ftraw. It is now 

 much grown in many of the fouthern as well as northern 

 counties. 



In the county of Effex, according to the Correfted Re- 

 port on the Agriculture of that diftrift, Mr. Kemp of He- 

 dingham compared wheat from Italy, from Scotland, and 

 from Dantzic ; the laft by far the beft, and next the 

 Scotch ; but the Itahan was full of fmut in fpite of every 

 attention in brining and liming ; and fowing it a fecond 

 time with ftill more precaution, the refult was the fame. 



About Burnham, fome cultivate a fort of wheat from 

 Italy, which they approve of much ; the ftraw is remark- 

 ably ftout and ftiff. They cultivate alfo a fort called the 

 Sopfodite; red grain, red chaff, and purple ftraw; this is a 

 very good fort. The Taunton Dean, too, is beautiful, but 

 will not bear rough weather. For two years paft the Ham- 

 burgh white, with white grain, and white chaff, has been a 

 faftiionable fort ; the white American fort is alfo ufed. 



The forts moft ufually fown about Kelvedon are the burrel 

 red chaff, and red grain ; and the white rough; white chaff, 

 and white grain, the chaff rough : this fort ftands the weather 

 well, and does not fhell eafily ; but is rather difficult to 

 thrafti. About Langenhoe they generally fow white wheat 

 on heavy land, and rarely rivets, rough chaff. Tori -white, 

 alfo American red. Some other of the above forts are like- 

 wife in ufe. 



It is remarked that a few years ago, as a perfon at Brad- 

 field wa« walking through his wheat-fields when the corn was 

 in full bloffom, he was ftruck with the variety of hues, or 

 colours, which the bloffoms affumed : at firft he conceived 

 it might be owing to the different ftages of forwardnefs in 

 the bloffom ; but on particular examination and more mature 

 refleftion concluded that they were certain figns of a fpeci- 

 fic difference in the quality of the wheat : impreffed with 

 this idea, he felefted the ears of different hues, and particu- 

 larly marked eleven diftinft numbers ; noting very minutely 

 their charafteriftic qualities and appearances in the field. 



Thefe he gathered and kept feparate when ripe, and planted 

 them apart from each other in his garden ; the fame charac- 

 teriftic difference was obferved to continue upon the feveral 

 numbers when growing in the garden as was obferved in the 

 field the preceding fummer, and are as below. 



Firji year in the garden culture. — No. I. A ftiff ftraw, 

 thick ear, the rows or chefts in which fet clofer than in 

 any other. 



2. Dark ftraw, full blade, and large open ear. 



3. A large long ear, ripened late, and well fet, 



4. Full fohage, and a long open ear. 



5. Straight handfome ftraw, large well-fet ears, flag or 

 leaf fmall. 



6. Red rufty leaf before fpindling, red ftraw with little 

 leaf at harveft and fmaller ears than any. 



7. Very like No. 6. in ftraw, the ears fmall, but well 

 fet. 



8. Straw leafy at harveft, of a good colour, well eared 

 and handfome. 



9. 10. Straw full ol flag or leaf at harreft, ears fet 

 wide. 



1 1. Very like No. j. 



Second year in the garden culture. — No. I. Short upright 

 ftiff ftraw, thick well-fet ears, and later by four or five days 

 than any of the others. 



i. Very dark ftraw, upon which there remained a full 

 dark blaie at harveft ; long open ears. 



3. Strong leafy ftraw, of a good colour, with a thick 

 long ear, well fet, rather later than Nos. 5, 8, and n. 



4. Thick leafy brown ftraw, with a fmall ear. 



5. 8, II. Short handfome bright leafy ftraw, ears long, 

 thick and well fet. 



6. Long ftraw with a good deal of flag, ears ill fet and 

 open. 



7. Straw handfome, but fmall ears, and fubjeft to root- 

 falling. 



9, 10. Long weak ftraw, very leafy, and fubjeft to root- 

 falling. 



It is noticed on thefe, that the lemon-coloured bloffom 

 was obferved to attend Nos. 5, 8, and 1 1 ; but the colour 

 of Nos. I and 3. was not particularly remembered. Thefe 

 are the numbers which had been preferved, Nos. 5, 8, and 

 II, coming to the fickle about a week earlier than Nos. I 

 and 3, the produce of which, when compared with the re- 

 jefted numbers, is an excefs of from fix to eight bnfhels^jr 

 acre, and weighing about three pounds more to the bufliel. 



At Bradvvell, it is obferved, a crop of IVindfor wheat 

 was had, white grain, white ftraw, and white chaff, which 

 was a moft beautiful fample ; the ftrength of the ftraw 

 middling. 



That of all the different forts of wheat Mr. Hardy has 

 tried on his farm, the beft has been the white egg-(hell, and 

 this is the fort moft cultivated in Foulnefs ifland. 



That the red American is a fort which yields remarkably 

 well with fome ; it is much approved in Merfea ifle. Some 

 have had the beft f\iccefs with it. But Mr. Strutt, at Ter- 

 ling, fowed a barrel of remarkably beautiful wheat from 

 New York, in part of a field, the reft of which was fown 

 with Englifti wheat, and the American was fo bhghted in 

 the ear as to produce a poor and miferable grain both in 

 quality and quantity. He fowed it again, and the refult 

 was the fame, and repeated the experiment the third time, 

 the refult again the fame, though the adjoining Englifh 

 wheat in all the three years produced a fair crop free from 

 all blight. The habit of this wheat, therefore, was not, it 

 is faid, changed in three years fowing. 



That the rough chaff, a white chaff and white grain, with 

 2 a velvet 



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