Wheat lately introduced into England. 



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to disease than other wheats, but its recent introduction prevents a 

 conclusive opinion being offered on this head. Tiie straw is brittle 

 and many ears break off. 



N.B. From the cuUivation of another year (1839), I am in- 

 clined to think this to be one of the most valuable wheats for 

 poor land : it has not degenerated in the smallest degree. 



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

 tive quantities of flour and offal. — The produce in grain was 33 

 bushels the acre, a very good sample weighing about 61 lbs. the 

 bushel; the chaff, 483 lbs. ; and the straw^ 7786 lbs. per acre. 

 Here was an amazing produce in straw, which made amends for 

 the deficiency in grain ; it is the most productive variety I have 

 met vdih but one for the straw-yard. The straw is so long that it 

 is unfit for the ordinary purposes of thatching ; a short, tenacious, 

 firm straw being generally preferred. The quantity of fine flour 

 obtained from an acre was 1454 lbs., of bran 477 lbs., and 47 lbs. 

 of pollard. The bread from this flour is rather dark, but very 

 well flavoured, and keeps moist some days : 27 lbs. of this flour 

 made into bread, in the mode formerly described, in the same 

 relative proportions of yeast, salt, and water, afforded, when cold 

 35^ lbs. of excellent bread. 



Crop. 



£. s. d. 



31 bushels, at 8^. per bushel . . . 12 8 0 



2 ditto Tailings, at 5.? 0 10 0 



Straw, 69i cwt., at Is. the cwt. . . 3 9 6 



16 7 6 



Charges to deduct as before, with an"] 



extra hoeing, and an additional > 14 0 0 

 half-bushel of wheat ... J 



Profit . . .£276 



Belle-Vue Talavera. 



1st. The mode of procuring it. — Described in my work on 

 Wheat as having been raised fi'om a single grain. This admirable 

 variety is invaluable, where it is adapted to the soil and climate. 



2nd. Culture ; viz., preparation and quantity of the seed, time 

 and method of sowing, relation both as to preceding and following 

 crops, and as to varieties of soil. — The seed was prepared precisely 

 as before described. The cultivation of the two fields destined 



