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That it does not tiller like common wheat, but fhoots up immediately from its firtt appearance above ground. That the grains are fmaller than common wheat, but increafe in fize when fown on rich land. That it is liable to the fmut. That it would fucceed in the fens and low lands, which are fubje@ to winter-floods. That it would be worth trying in the mountainous parts of Derbyfhire, York thire,&c. where httle or nowhcat is fown, the fituation being too cold for wheat fown in the autumn to fiand the feverity of winter, frofts, and rain, without perifhing. Inthe firt volume of the Tranfactions of the Society of Arts, Sir Wm. Fordyce, he remarks, gives an account of an experiment on{pring or Siberian wheat, in which two bufhels of wheat produced two quarters of grain. It was fown the beginning of April, after turnips, and was found to prove an excellent nurie of clover and rye-grafs, fown at the fame time. The turnips had been drawn, and not fed off by fheep. The(oik a mixture of gravel and clay. And in the Annals of Agriculture, Vol. VII. and X., fome important experiments on{pring wheat are recorded by Mr. Ruggles, of Clare. Seed two and three buthels per acre; the produce from two to three quar~ ters. Time of fowing the end of March. Mr. Ruggles obferves, that this wheat is apt to receive injury from froft and dry weather. That it requires a dry mouldy foil; if moift, fo much the better; but he does not conceive the crop equal to. {pring corn, unlefs the price of wheat fhould exceed the average difference be- tween that grain and barley, or when, from an uncommon quantity of rain in autumn, the wet lands may not have been fown. The weight fixty-three pounds

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acre, about the middle of March. He has grown it on the fame land for three years fucceffively. He has reaped this wheat on the 25th of July, got in turnips, and then wheat again in fpring. And Mr. Marfhall, in his Survey of the Midland: Counties, remarks, that fpring-wheat is cultivated and approved of in that dis. firict. It was likewife ftated in the General Evening Poft of November 12th, 1800, that in an account of an experiment made that year on the genuine{pring-wheat: —A perfon at Bridgenorth fowed ten acres with the abeve wheat on the 29th and 30th of April, which produced on the average more than twenty-one: threaves, common-fized fheaf, per acre; and, from a trial made of its produce,, yielded more than fixty quarts of fine wheat per threave. Seven acres. was a two- year old clover-ley, cold clay land, ploughed more than feven months. before

fowing. Four acres of the above feven were manured with four hundred buthels of lime before fowing, the other three with one hundred bufhels of foot fix weeks after..

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