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Management of Wheat, 



former, though of superior quality, do not on a gravelly soil, in a 

 dry climate, produce an average crop, if spring-sown ; besides 

 this, the grain adheres with such tenacity to the chaff, that there 

 is extreme difficulty in thrashing them with the machine. 



Among other faults which some varieties possess is an incapa- 

 bility to withstand severe weather, liability to shell when harvested, 

 or to grow in the ear, to which very chaffy kinds are more espe- 

 cially subject. 



The advantages to be derived from a change of seed from a hot 

 to a cold soil, and vice versa, has already been mentioned. Plants 

 removed from one climate to another will in some measure con- 

 tinue in the same habit of growth. Thus seed brought from a 

 warm country will produce an early crop, though it will be inferior 

 in hardihood to plants grown from seed brought from a cold cli- 

 mate ; and it will be found, that, whilst the latter improves by 

 cultivation, the former deteriorates. 



The following is the result of an experiment tried last year 

 upon red wheats by Mr. J. B. Brown, Elms Hall, Colne En- 

 gaine, given to the public, which will be found to contain valuable 

 information — 









Quantity 



Weight 



Weight of 



Bushels of 









per 



per 



Straw 



Chaff 









Acre. 



Bushel. 



per Acre. 



per Acre. 









b. p. p. 



lbs. 





lbs. 





1. Colne White Chj 



iff 





42 3 4 



62 



3250 



CO 









39 2 12 



63i 



3515 



75 



3. Sharp's, Goody's, 



or 



Crabb's . 



39 0 14 



64 



3415 



70 









38 2 1 



651 



3765 



SO 









37 3 4 



65" 



3860 



75 









36 2 14 



61* 



39S5 



65 









36 2 4 



64' 



375-3 



65 









36 0 6 



63i 



3535 



65 



9. Piper's Thickset 







33 3 0 



63l 



2550 



100 









36 2 14 



64 



3780 



50 











Proportional 



Proportional 









Weight of 



Weight of 



Measure of 









Grain 



Straw in 



Chaff in 









per Acre. 



comparison 



comparison 











with Grain. 



with Grain. 









lbs. 











1. Colne White Chaff 





2654 



1-22 





2-09 









2520 



1-39 





1- 



58 



3. Sliarp's, Goody's, 



or Crabbs . 



2510 



1-36 





1-78 









2522 



1-49 





2-05 



5. Seyer's . . . 







2458 



1-57 





1-98 









2368 



1-26 





1-77 









2340 



1-60 





1-77 









2291 



1-54 





1-80 



9. Piper's Thickset 







2142 



1-19 





2-91 



10. Kent Red . . 







2350 



1-60 





1-36 



