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is the less liable to lodge; and farmers observe it is the least apt to be 
mildewed, or to be eaten by birds, from which last it is greatly guarded by 
its long rough awns; but the flour of it is somewhat coarse. Their white 
kind, of red- grained wheat is a very good sort for clayey land: it yields a 
good crop, and seldom smuts. 
In Staffordshire they reckon the red Lammas, or bearded wheat, the best 
for cold lands, or stiff clays. 
In Berkshire they have a sort called pendulum-wheat, from the hanging 
of its ears, much like the cone-wheat. 
In Northamptonshire they have a sort of wheat with a white straw, and 
reddish ear and grain, much commended for the plumpness and largeness 
of the grain, and strength of the straw, which prevents its being subject 
to lodge; nor is it apt to be eaten by birds. They have also a red-eared 
bearded wheat , and a sort of pollard, or duck-bill wheat , as it is called, 
known in Sussex by the name of fuller s wheat , which has so close and 
thick a husk, that the birds never injure it. Mr. Miller observes, that 
this sort of wheat grows very tall, and if it be sown too thick, is very apt to 
be lodged by rain and wind; for that its ears are large and heavy, and 
inclined on one side, as the grain increases in weight; but that if its roots 
are at a proper distance from each other, it will tiller greatly, and have 
strong stalks, and that the grain of this wheat yields more flour in proportion 
than that of any other sort. The awns of this wheat always drop off when 
the grain is full grown. 
Smyrna-wheat, commonly called many-eared wheat, because several 
lesser, or collateral ears, grow around the bottom of the main ear, which is 
very large in its state of perfection, requires more nourishment than the 
common husbandry can give it, and therefore is not cultivated by our 
farmers : but it would probably do extremely well with the horse-hoeing 
husbandry, where the quantity of pabulum can be enlarged almost at 
pleasure. For the same reason, mai%e, commonly called Turkey, or Indian 
Corn, is fitted for this last husbandry, as will be more particularly noticed 
hereafter. 
Some gentlemen have been curious enough to procure their seed-wheat 
from Sicily, and it has succeeded very well as to growth; but the grain 
of this species has proved too hard for our English mills properly to 
Mr. Boys, of Betshanger, near Sandwich, in Kent, has given us the 
