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Report on the Wheat 
At tliis time No. 1 was much laid, as well as a small part of No. 2 ; 
all the others stood well. From the 2rid to the 11th of August we had 
heavy and continuous rains, at which time No. 1 was beaten flat ; a 
considerable part of No. 2 was down ; No. 3 was not so much affected ; 
whilst Nos. 4 and 5 stood upright. The dibbled wheats were in no 
way affected by the weather ; whilst the wheat drilled at 1 bushel 3 pecks 
per acre at the lower end of the field, in the deep soil, was prostrate. 
From the state of many of the pieces I found it quite impossible, with- 
out serious injury to the produce, to mow the crop, and therefore, on 
the 19th of August, began reaping No. 1, but was interrupted by rain 
for 24 hours. On the 22nd I finished 1 and 2 ; on the 23rd, 5 ; on the 
25tli, 3 and 4. As there appeared every chance of a catching harvest, 
on the 29th I housed No. 1 and 2 in the barn ; but as the weather took 
up immediately afterwards, I left 3, 4, and 5 till the 2nd of September, 
when I stacked them in the field. The dibbled wheats were still very 
green ; but from the quantity of small birds which infested the field, 
it was necessary to cut it, which I did on the 30th of August, and 
housed all on the 5th of September, on which day the experimental 
field was cleared of the dibbled wheats, as I conceive prematurely, for 
they were not in a condition either for the barn or stack, but the weather 
was so threatening, joined to the havoc committed by the birds, as to 
determine me to save what I could, without much reference to condition. 
In my selection of pieces from each of the trial wheats to be thrashed 
and measured, I took an vmdeviating line throughout the field, avoiding 
as much as I could those parts which were much laid ; but this was 
impossible, as far as No. 1 was concerned, as the whole of it was nearly 
flat. My intention had been to have carried out this experiment as 
fully as I did that of 1841, and to have reported not only on the quantity 
of grain and straw produced from each variety, but likewise the 
quantity of flour produced from a given weight of each ; the varying 
circumstances, however, from the changeable state of the weather under 
which the different wheats were housed, precluded the possibility of this 
being fair, and I therefore merely weighed the wheat snd straw, the 
results of which the following table will indicate : — 
DRILLED WHKATS. 
(Quantities 
sown 
per Acre. 
Numbers 
of 
Wheats. 
Weight 
per 
Bushel. 
Produce per .\cre, estimated 
from about one-tliird of an Acre, 
measured, reaped by hand, 
and thrashed by hand. 
Head. ! Tail. 
Weight of Straw 
per Acre. 
n. V. 
Q. 
lbs. 
B. p. Q. 
B. P. Q. 
Tons cwt. 
qr. m. 
2 0 
1 
CO 
48 0 0 
7 2 0 
3 
2 
2 20 
2 0 
I 
2 
59 
12 2 0 
4 0 0 
2 
2 
0 21 
2 0 
0 
3 
CI 
47 0 0 
7 1 0 
2 
9 
2 21 
2 0 
0 
4 
CO 
35 3 0 
4 3 0 
2 
0 
0 10 
2 0 
0 
5 
61 
49 0 0 
5 0 0 
2 
2 
2 13 
1 .3 
0 
1 
59 
Estimated from one-fifth of an 
Acre, treated as above. 
31 2 0 j 2 2 0 
2 
0 
3 11 
