Wheat lately introduced into England. 



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winter wheats is doubtful. Another peculiarity is the tenacity of 

 the chaff to the ear, more remaining on it after passing through 

 the threshing-machine than any other variety I am acquainted 

 with. 



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

 tive qucLntifies of flour and offal. — The amount of produce in grain 

 was 52 Imperial bushels to the acre; the grain is so large that it 

 tells in the measure ; the sample very beautiful, as a bushel of it, 

 which will be produced at the Oxford Meeting, will show — uni- 

 form, clear, and thin-skinned. Hence the weight in grain at 6 libs, 

 the bushel, was 31721bs., the weight of chafF2821bs., and of strav/ 

 54801bs. The qunntity of flour obtained was 24851 bs., the quan- 

 tity of pollard 381bs., and of bran or offal 5881bs. The bread made 

 from, this flour is incomparably the best that I have met with ; it 

 is light, very white, and preserves its moisture almost as long as 

 bread made from spring wheat. It is, moreover, so sweet and 

 well-flavoured, as to appear to some palates more like cake than 

 ordinary bread. Independently of the large proportion of flour 

 it affords, it makes much of this fine bread; 181bs. of the flour, 

 having absorbed more water than the last described, gave 251bs. 

 of bread. 



Crop. 



£. s. d, 



48 bushels, at 8^. per bushel . . . 19 4 0 



4 ditto Taihngs, at 5^ 10 0 



Straw, 48f cwt., at the cwt. , . 2 8 9 



22 12 9 



Charges to deduct, as per Whitington . 14 0 0 



Profit ... £ 8 12 9 



The weights of ISlbs. or 271bs. used for the flour to be baked 

 are intended to be comparative experimients of Vvcights of nines, 

 it being generally understood, especially in baking bread and 

 serving it out to troops, that 91bs. of common flour will make 1 libs, 

 of bread. All those, however, that I have experimented on 

 afforded more : the two lowest having afforded, from ISlbs. of 

 flour, 221bs. 9oz., and 231bs. ; the former of my own growth, the 

 latter made from wheat imported from^ Rostock and Dantzic mixed. 



In all the cases detailed, the succeeding crop was not allowed 

 to interfere with the wheat crop ; the clovers and artificial grasses 

 having been sown subsequently to the harvest, after one light 

 ploughing. 



