Agricultural Maxima. 
447 
" N, Walsham, 25th Nov. 1859. 
" Dear Sir, — I am unaWe to find the particulars of the crop grown in 1844 
in the stable-close containing 5a. 1r. 38p. The produce exceeded 22 coombs 
an acre, landlord's measure ; and I think it amounted to 22 coombs 2 bushels. 
The previous crop was peas. 
" I attribute this abundant crop to the season, and not to any particular 
course of husbandry. 
" I send you my average for seven years, including 1844, both of wheat and 
barley, and am 
" Yours truly, 
" George "Wilkinson. 
Wheat. 
Barley. 
c. 
B. 
p. 
c. 
B. 
p. 
"Harvest 1844 .. .. 
13 
0 
2 
13 
0 
0 
„ 1845 .. 
8 
3 
0 
11 
3 
0 
1846 .. .. 
10 
3 
0 
10 
1 
0 
1847 .. .. 
10 
0 
2 
12 
0 
0 
1848 .. .. 
9 
1 
2 ! 
10 
0 
0 
„ 1849 .. .. 
11 
2 
0 
11 
2 
0 
1850 .. 
9 
2 
3 
9 
3 
1 
7)73 
1 
1 
7)78 
1 
1 
Average produce per acre 
f 10 
1 
3 
11 
0 
3 
for the last 7 years j 
or 5 qrs. 1 bush. 3 pecks. 65 qrs. 3 pecks." 
6. Mr. John Wilson, of Edington Mains, Berwickshire, author 
of the article ' Agriculture ' in the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' 
and well known in the North as a most intelligent agriculturist, 
gives me the following instances of agricultural maxima within 
his knowledge or experience : — 
" (a). In 1824 a field on this farm of 40 acres produced a crop of potato-oats 
of excellent quality, which yielded 84 bushels per acre over the whole field. 
" (6). Some years earlier — I cannot give the year — a field of 11 acres 
adjoining the foregoing bore a crop of the common Scotch bean, which yielded 
600 bushels. 
" (c). During the past thirty years I have on three different occasions had 
60 bushels of barley per acre over an entire field. The fii-st instance was on a 
20-acre field, and the common long-eared barley. The two others were on a 
33-acre field — first with Norfolk barley, and second vsdth Annat. The Norfolk 
barley weighed 57J lbs. per bushel. In all these barley crops the proportion 
of tail-corn was quite insignificant — about IJ per cent. only. 
" (tZ). In 1826 — a season of imusual drought and heat, and the earliest har- 
vest in the current century — the wheat crop (Hunter's variety) on a farm in 
this district, extending to nearly 60 acres, averaged 48 bushels per acre of 
marketable grain over the whole breadth, the grain being of unusually fine 
quality. 
" (e). In the same year, on another farm in the same neighbourhood, two 
fields of considerable size — one in red wheat, the other white — were said to 
have yielded 60 bushels per imperial acre. 
" (/). More recently, although I cannot state the year, 5 acres were 
measured off in a field of wheat (Hunter's variety) on a farm in this district ; 
and these 5 acres lying contiguous, but selected as being apparently the best 
portion of the field, were found to yield 66 bushels per acre' — the highest yield 
that has come to my knowledge. 
