Wheat lately introduced into England. 



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rust, which under such circumstances ahnost all wheat suffers 

 from. 



It is a fact worthy of notice that;, in 1837, a field of this wheat, 

 which had been sown with seed carefully washed and steeped in a 

 solution of arsenic,* had not a single smutted ear ; but on one head- 

 land, for which there was not sufiicient seed, a small portion was 

 fetched from the barn, and sown dry ; though appearing a beau- 

 tiful sample, it was infested with smut throughout ; this was of 

 course carefully picked out by hand before it ripened fully, and 

 burned. 



6th. Amount of produce in grain, chaff, and straw, and the 

 relative quantities of flour and offal. — The crop produced 

 imperial bushels of 63 lbs. ; of chaff 430 lbs. ; and of straw, as 

 described, 4681 lbs. to the acre. The quantity of flour obtained 

 from an acre was 2161 lbs., of bran 510 lbs., and of pollards 

 96 lbs. 



The bread from this flour is of a dry light nature, very white 

 and good, but objected to by some from its being quite what is 

 termed dry bread at the end of 48 hours. It is, however, of 

 excellent yield, and, according to the millers, exceedingly fine and 

 smooth in the working. It is a valuable wheat : 18 lbs. of the 

 flour, treated as the former variety, imbibed the following morning 

 3 quarts and 1 pint of warm water, and produced 25| lbs. of 

 bread, weighed when c|uite cold. 



Crop. £. s. d. 



40 J bushels at 8^. per bushel . . , 16 4 0 



3 ditto Tailings, at 5^ 0 15 0 



Straw, 41| cwt., at 1^. per cwt. . » 2 1 9 • . * 



19 0 9 



Charges as in the last . . <, . . 13 11 0 

 Profit , . . al?5 9 9 



Whitington Wheat. 



1st. The mode of procuring it. — From Mr. Whitington himself, 

 a very fine pure sample. The grain is large, full, and plump, 

 rather of a whitish-red cast, and a little thick-skinned. 



* The steeping of seed in a solution of arsenic is a dangerous practice, 

 as, from the poisonous nature of the drug, there is a great hazard of acci- 

 dents occurring. The steeping in brine, as above described by Colonel Le 

 Couteur, is an elfectual prevention of smut, and not accompanied with any 

 danger. — Spencer. 



