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Reports on Trial Wheats. 
coomb of red I sent to this place, Great Gransden. The white and the 
red which were sowed at Litlington were sowed upon a clover layer, 
upon land of a chalky subsoil, and which had been strictly under the 
four-course system, turnips, barley, trefoil, or clover, and then wheat. 
The produce of 1^ acre of the white was 40 bushels, and of the red 
33 bushels. The white was a very good crop, but the red very inferior, 
and never had the fine appearance of the white, though sowed in the 
same field and adjoining each other. I also sowed some of the wheat 
which gained the prize at Oxford, of which I also send you a sample, 
and some red wheat which is called in this neighbourhood Clover's 
wheat ; the produce of the Oxford white was 35 bushels, and of Clover's 
45 bushels. All were sowed on an equal quantity of land, li acre, and 
the same quantity of seed. That of Clover's was sowed about a week 
after the others, which were sowed on the same day, the 24th of October. 
The wheat sowed at Gransden was sowed about the 1st of November, 
and was supposed to have been the same as the red wheat which was 
sowed at Litlington, but it proved to be a rough chaffed wheat, a very 
inferior sort of wheat, and was a bad crop though sowed upon a good 
piece of land which had been folded with sheep, and had had a clean 
summer fallow, and which was sowed contiguous to some sowed with 
Clover's wheat, which was a very heavy crop. I consider, and so do my 
bailifi's, that the white wheat is a very good productive sort of wheat, 
and we have sowed the whole of this year's produce again ; the red 
wheat to be very inferior, small in produce, the ears with the corn very 
distant, and such as we have condemned to the miller to be ground. 
The produce of 1^ acre of the red wheat at Gransden was not more than 
25 bushels. 
I am, dear Sir, 
Yours very faithfully, 
William Webb. 
Great Gransden, near Caxlon, Nov. 2Sth, 1843. 
To James Dean, Esq. 
Minute of Council ; December 7, 1843. 
"The judges of seed-wheat, selected for trial at the Bristol Meeting, 
having made their respective reports of the results obtained in culti- 
vating the selected wheats along with well-known varieties of the neigh- 
bourhood in which each trial was made, the Council resolved, That 
although the white wheat promised favourably under certain circum- 
stances, they had not at that time sufiicient proof before them that it 
possessed the requisite amount of merit for the Society's prize ; while 
the two red wheats appeared to be very inferior in every respect. As 
the comparison had been made during an unfavourable season, the 
Council decided that the white wheat should have the advantage of a 
further trial." 
