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WHEAT CROPS. 
he thinks ought to be more attended to, and intro¬ 
duced, especially after wet autumns, which prove so 
unkindly to summer fallows ; he has had as much grown 
per acre, succeeding turnips, as the winter corn, and a 
greater weight; the sort a little bearded. This kind he 
thinks cannot exhaust the land nearly so much as 
winter wheat, being not half so long on the land, and is 
ripe as early if sown in March, with the advantage of 
not being subject to mildew.— Mr. C. I remarked 
some spring wheat growing, which seemed to me a 
week or two later than the autumn wheat, but this Mr. 
C. observed was not sown till April, which is rather too 
late. 
As a proof that wheat is very uncertain of succeeding 
upon over-tilled land, I give the following instance at 
one corner of the enclosed Lickey, near Bromsgreve, 
upon good light loam ; observing in company with 
Mr. C. a crop extremely unkind, and overrun with 
weeds, the reapers picking it out, I enquired about the 
cropping and manure, and found as follows :—1st year, 
turnips; 2. barley; 3. wheat; 4. oats; and the crops 
hitherto good. The occupier was tempted to try wheat 
again on the oat stubble, but in order to give the land 
force, gave it a good dressing with bucking ashes from 
Broinsgrove (i. e.) linen whitener’s ashes (which have 
been proved an excellent dressing for grass land) the 
wheat looked promising through the winter and till 
March; in the spring a prodigious shoot of the May 
weed, or corn chamomile (anthemis arvensis) took 
place, the wheat became totally enveloped and smo¬ 
thered in it, the straw mildewed, and the plant so far 
perished as not to produce the seed again. August 4, 
1807, questioned the reapers concerning the cause of 
this failure of crop, they attributed it to the bucking 
ashes, 
