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asa fpring corn. THe has fince met with an account.cf this grain having been fown in the fpring as Egyptian or Siberian barley, under which name it was intro- duced into this country in the year 1767*.

The Rev. Dr. Pike has fown it as fpring corn in the middle of April, arid has had above four quarters per acre. It was on very good land, and kept perfe&ly clean from weeds. Ifit be truly a native of Egypt, he fhould have judged, that a light but very rich foil might have been moft proper for it: neverthelefs, he thinks he has found, that(like Englifh rivets) ftrong land fuits it beft. It gives a very bold, plump eee grain, of a good colour. He cannot think that it is the fame as the Siberian wheat(or barley, as fome have called-it). The grains do not anfwer the defeription which fome authors give of that fpecies. That was, he fays, introduced into this country about the year’ which Dr. Wilkinfon mentions; but this wa known here at leaft above 120 years before; for he has founda fhort lobes and a tolerably good figure, of it in Parkinfon, page 1120, under the name of

Triticum multiplics gic In the figure, its very remarkable difiinction from all

i other forts is well expreffed, by a number of fhort ears growing out of the fides

fthe chief ears: Ile calls it in Englifh double-eared wheat, and fays that it

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To be read after Line 25, Page 541.—In Norfolk, wheat is feldom fown after the preparation of acomplete fummer fallowing; there, wheats almoft invariably fucceed clover, unlefs a pea or bean crop be ae BOill, and the land is fcarcely ever fallowed

for it, except-in the cafe mentioned in note on daflard fummer-tills.

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To be read after Line8, Page 343.—In Norfolk, however,they arein theconftant habit of fetting ee upon a pea-ftubble with a fingle ploughing, and confider it very fafe and excellent hufbandry: the pea-crop ought to have been kept ciean, and, after it is harvefted, the haulm harrowed off. They never plough a bean-ftubble

more than once.

To be read after Line 15, Page 550.-—An intelligent farmer in Norfolk had, in

* the year 1800, a piece of drilled wheat, confifting of nearly eight acres and

a half, unfeeded by the carelefsnefs of his man.‘The vacant places were

dibbled, but to no purpofe; the vegetation was fo languid, that, in the courfe of

* Monthly Magaz'ne, Vol. XVI. p. 132.+ Ibid.