The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-07-31 00:00:00

MN SOWING.

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On the above suLject, Mr. Mecid, writing to The
Tina, from Tiptrec-hall, July 22, says :
I consider the thin sowing question so important nationally,
that I invite all those who feel interested to come anti in-
spect the four pecks and two pecks per acre of wheat and
the six peels of barley and eight pecks of oats pr acre. No
rule can be laid down for every slit and clima.e, but let
each one try on a small scale, and so arrive at a proper con-
clusion.
In many parts of Scotland it is mint to sow seven bushels
of oats, six bushels of b reley, four Inv Inds of wheat. This is
' small cross' "" 11--- fifty acres id

a sure Way to produce sma— crops. We II 10e „
wheat sown with one bushel per acre, and shall commence
harvest on the 2nd of August.

Cartwright,

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In connection with the above letter, Mr.
Newbottle Manor, Brackley, writes to Ile I'imee,
July 24 :
I notice in your Impression of this day a letter by Mr.
Maoist upon the national imporianee of thin seeding I
entirely agree with Id. views, lia.ung been an advocate for
this sowing for year., but l thi .k I have gone a little beyond
bins in quantities. I not Oily sew my wheat, but my barley
al.o, ni •'se bushel per acre, and this year I have some wheat
and but at two pec's s per acre. As smne of my neighbours
were last year very sceptical as to the advantage of thin
sowing, I have this season side by side with the two peeks
the same quantity of land drilled at two bushels, and the
difference in the appearance between the two quantities is
most striking. After I have thrashed the corn I hope to
send you an account of the produce, and I shall be most happy
to show my crops to ally gentleman who may wish to cune
and see them.
I Can also corroborate Mr. Meehi's statement of the usual
quantities sown in Scotland. I tried there last year six pecks
of harley and eight pecks of oats per acre (my land in Scot-
land is not wheat land), with snub good results, that I drilled
he same quantities tins year, alai when I saw my crops there
last month they showed every sign of pro ueing an equally
good yield.

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On the same subject, "The Master of the Brain.
tree Union Workhouse," has cent the following to The
7' LIAM
As the time has arrived when a fair estimate may be
formed of the probable wheat crop, perhaps, though, on a
small scale, you may not consider the following altogether
uninteresting as an experiment:—
Adopting Mr. Mechi's system, we last, autumn " dibbled "
an acre of graund with three pecks of wheat; kind, ordinary
red; sample, thin—a common, though doubtless great fault
in seed. Our land is tolerably strong. The piece in question
grew potatoes last year, and was not mauured for this year's
crop. We planted at a distance of ten inches from hole to
hole each wcy, and, at nearly as we could, restricted ourselves
to two kernels to a hole. The average result is eight stems to
a plant, ears (of which I enclose a fair sample of the bulk,
many of them live Inches long) of twenty sets, the major por-
tion of which will yield four kernels per set I have laid the
product at five qrs , but some of our old farming men, who
predicted a signal failure at seeding time, talk about sir..
I think the above is a pro-ithat with fair land and ground
game this, thin seeding will give us quantity; onality ner-
haps, is another question.