Excerpt from The Farmer's Magazine, 1814, Vol. 15: A Periodical Work, Exclusively Devoted to Agriculture and Rural Affairs The first variety, Red Sprat, answered remarkabl well, and, on rich soils, has produced upwards of sixty Wine nester'bush els per acre. It surpasses all other varieties I have yet tried for rich soils; since it rarely lodges, ripens very early, a week be fore any of our white wheats, and is very abundant. Nine rows or spicula of this wheat are contained in 275th and inches.' 211, 'vhite Norfolk W'heat is wholly sown by my brother, in preference to any other variety: it is a very beautiful wheat, and brings the highest price. 3d, lied Norfolk Wheat had nine'spicula in 343th inches, and appeared very much to re semble the Burwell Red Wheat. Clog \vheat being one of the downy-chahed awny wheats, was sown no more. 5th, Spring \vheat, resembling in every res eet the Huntingdon shire Spring 7heat, was also discarde On examining the first crop, I observed no other varieties of either red or white wheat. The following crop surprised and pleased me with three or four new varieties of both. They are only in small quanti ties; and it will require two years before I shall be enabled to provide other farmers with them. To detail the trials 1 have made with the other varieties of White Wheat in this county, is unnecessary, since it is almost impossible to communicate to other Counties a knowledge of our merely local names; and no new varieties were observed in consequence of the trial. It is probable, from the preceding statement, that more new varies ties will be discovered, by the admixture of red and white wheats, than of white wheats alone. The Sardinian, an awny red wheat, was the most worthless sample I ever saw. It is not better than rye. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.