46 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

A good deal of bearded wheat, here called Yeograve wheat, used to be sown particularly in the clay open fields, but is now much left off. It is a stronger stemmed hardier wheat, but coarser grained.

Rye is but little sown, being scarce at all used for bread. Chiefly in the Trent bank land, about Markham,&c. and én the forest. There are two kinds; a black, and a white or silvery sort. This latter has been sown in the spring with success.—Iwo strikes sown, crop from three quarters to four.

Barley is much sown—No particular kind is distinguished. The Fulham rathripe, or early barley, has been tried in a few places; but though ten days ora fortnight earlier, has not answered in point of quantity of produce, or boldness of grain, so as to recommend the practice.

Four strikes are sown, produce per acre, from three to six and seven quarters.

Oats of various kinds are sown.—In the Trent bank chiefly the Poland; in other parts the Friesland Holland oats, brown oats, black oats in cold lands, and a few Tar- tarian, which will grow on worse lands than others, but are later in ripening, and coarser grained.

Four strikes are sown; crop from four to seven; some- times as high as ten quarters.

Skegs, a species of oats, are I believe confined to this country. Eight strikes are sown; and yield a crop double that of other oats, in quantity; but not more than equal in weight.— They will grow in the poorest land, and are reck- oned very sweet food. They are seldom brought to market; but esteemed by farmers for their own use, and are often given in the straw.

Beans ave almost all of the small horse bean kind. Four strikes sown, crop three to four and five quarters.

Pease.—The common blue pea is sown in the poorer lands; in some stronger, the rounceval; in some good Trent bank land, grey or white; four strikes are sown, crop from four to five and six quarters.