TA On Spring Wheat and Egyptian Wheat.[Feb

As any particulars relating to the different‘ſpecies of wheat are intereſting, I ſhall mention a few obſervations on the nature of Egyptian wheat, the reſult of my own experience. The firſt year on three acres of moiſt loam, which had been previouſly fallowed, nine buſhels of ſeed produced nine quarters of wheat. Tn the ſame field, after a ſimilar preparation, the ſame proportion of white wheat produced three quarters four buſheis per acre: In boch caſes the fallow was drefled with about 100 buſhels of lime per acre, at 7d. per buſhel delivered.

Four buſhels of Egyptian wheat, though weighing four pounds more than the ſame quantity of the white wheat, yet produced twelve pounds leſs of flour, the bran being coarſer and heavier. After the month of May the growth was more rapid than that of common wheat, on which account I ſhould ſuppoſe it might be ſown with advantage in ſpring. The enſuing ſpring will, preſenta fair opportunity for the trial.:

The fraw ſo nearly reſembles a reed, that it has been called reed wheat—being heavy and tough it is cut with difficulty, on which account the reapers required an extraordinary price. It 1s excellent for thatching, and I have employed it for this pur- póôſe oh a large hay barn.‘The truſſes, on account of their weight, would appear ſo ſmall, that the ſtraw would not- be

aleable in the London market.

The ears are bearded like the cone wheat, and in ſhape re- ſemble the cone wheat or rivets. The length of tbe ſtraw, and rhe weight of the car, renders it liable to lodge.

On cxpoling it to ſale, I found the millers not inclined to purchaſe it, They complain that it is of too horny a nature, that-it grinds hard, and obliges them to ſet their ſtones too cloſe.

The four is coarſer and darker than that of the common wheat; a miller who purchaſed ſome, was charged by his cuſtom- ers with grinding rivets. Great part of‘the crop ſold at a price but little above that of good barley. i; As the crop, though apparently thin on the ground, had yie!ded three quarters per acre, Î entertained hopes that the cultivation might anſwer, even at the price of barley, if on higher land and a warmer ſoil, I could ſecure a larger produce. Wich this view, therefore, the following year I ſowed on a lighter loam two acres with this wheat, and the remaining ſix acres of the field with fhe common red wheat, The whole on a clover ley. The prodúuce'of the red wheat was three quarters per acre, but of the Egyptian, not above two quarters per acre, and I found great dithculty in diſpoſing of it even at the price of barley, y — I.conclude, therefore, that this wheat will. not anſwer in this , where wheat of a ſuperior quality can be cultivated te advantage, unleſS it can be introduced as ſpring corn,: