143 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

Quantity of RAIN which fell at Weft Bridgford in the first seven months of the year 17197. January= 1,25

February 9,15 March 1,09

April 2,29 May 3953 June 4,20 July 1,89

Total inches 14,40

APPENDIX. No. II.

SKEGS appear to be the avena stipiformis of Linneus, described by the Botanical Society at Litchfield, in their translation of the System of Vegetables.

Pannicled, calyxes two flowered, awns twice as long as the seed, culm branchy, stipe form.

They are sown on the worst land: sometimes on a lea, sometimes after turnips, often taken as a last crop. On bad land they!may produce about four quarters per acre, which are generally about two thirds of the price of oats. They answer to sow on good land, producing fourteen and fifteen quarters per acre. The kernel is reckoned remarkable sweet good food for horses.‘They are sometimes threshed, sometimes cut. in the straw..“They, are chiefly grows about Carberton, and will grow where nothing else will.