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VIII. — On the ProductivenesJi of certain Wheats. 

 By C. HiLLYARD, Esq. 



7b the President. 



Dear Sir^ — -As you think that an account of the experiment 

 I have been making as to the productiveness of 7 different 

 kinds of wheat will be of sufficient value for insertion in the So- 

 ciety's Journal^ I will here state the particulars of the experiment, 

 give the result, and make a few observ^ations on the growth and 

 value of that most important of all grain, wheat. 



Mr. Sewell, of Bookham, Surrey, who gained at Oxford the first 

 prize for white wheat, and Mr. William Fisher Hobbs, of Mark's 

 Hall, Essex, who gained the prize for brown, having each been 

 kind enough to give me a bushel of their wheat, I had these, and 

 five other bushels, of different sorts, dibbled into 7 half-acres 

 of land, after Mangel Wurzel, in the three last days of November. 

 They were numbered thus : — 



No. 1. Mr. Hobbs' brown. 



2. Mr. Sewell's white. 



3. Clover, a brovv u wheat distinguished here by that name. 



4. A white wheat, which I have called Snowdrop, it 



having been given me some years ago without a name. 



5. Burwell, a brown wheat much sown in this country, 



and procured from Burwell, Cambridgeshire. 



6. The Golden Drop. 



7. Whittington White Wheat. 



These have all been thrashed out, except the Golden Drop, which 

 was not a full crop, arising I have no doubt from defect in the 

 seed, but it is well known here that this wheat will produce more 

 than any other kind, and that it is about six-pence per bushel of 

 less value. 



Underneath is an account of the produce of each kind, and from 

 a miller's estimate of the value per bushel, the value per acre. 

 Produce of each half -acre : — 



No. 



Essex Brown « 

 Surrey White 

 Brown, called Clover 

 Snowdrop White 

 Burwell Brown . 

 Whitington White 



Bush. 



20 

 18 

 20 



22i 

 18~ 



Good Inferior. 



19 



17 



19* 



ISi 



22' 



17 



Weight 



per 

 Bushel. 



lbs. 



64 



64 



631 



63 



63 



62 



Value per 

 Quarter. 



64s. 

 66s. 

 6.3s. 

 6 -4s. 



ms. 



62s. 



Per j Acre. 

 Quantity, i Value 



Qrs. Bush.i£. 



15 17 



14 14 



15 13 

 13 9 

 17 12 

 13 16 



A great deal more straw than either of the other kinds. 

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