DIGITAL ARCHIVE of SLAVERY to FREEDOM at MONTICELLO   (beta)

VII. Plants.

Wheat.

G. Divers supposes that every Cubic yard of a stack of wheat yields generally 2. bushels of grain. a demi-cord then yields 4¾ bushels of grain & 475 ℔ of straw & chaff, or perhaps ¼ of a ton.

Jo. Watkins says he knows from actual experiment that wheat loses 2 ℔ in the bushel, weight, from Oct. to January which is 1. pr cent pr month.

he reckons the offal of a bushel of wheat worth 1/see below

2½ bush. of seed wheat to the acre produces the maximum. 1. Young. exp. agr. 271.

drilling in equidistant rows, those 1. foot apart produce the maximum. ib. 286. 292. 294.
in this way 2 bush. of seed per acre seems better than 2½ ib. 298.

all September & the first fortnight of October, in England, for sowing, produces most. 310.
too early sowing does more mischief after a clover lay than after a fallow. ib. 306.

as to change of seed he establishes these points. 1. wheats from the most opposite climates are best. 2. from opposite soils also, as clay wheats on gravel soil, or gravel wheats on clay soil. 3. wheat which has for some years been of the same neighborhood is worse than any change that can be made. 1. Exp. agr. 321.

for 5½ bushels of wheat a miller should give a barrel of fine flour, he keeping the offal

for 6. bushels he should give a barrel of [. . .] fine flour, he finding barrel & nails, & returng the offal.

	6. bushels of wheat weigh			360
		a barrel contains of fine flour		196
		allowance for waste		20
			℔			sd
		Offal.	Seconds 25 = ½bush. of corn	25	= ½ bush. of corn	1–6
			Shorts2. bushels	50.	@	1–6
			bran3. bushels	69	@ 1/ per bushel	3
						6–0

when wheat is @ 6/ per bush. then the offal is worth 1/ per bushel

to have a barrel of flour & the offal for 6/ instead of a barrel for 5½ is getting 6/ for the odd half bushel of wheat

	1800.	Sep 9. on accurate trial 3. bush. of wheat in the chaff as it came from the threshing machine yielded 1. bush. of clean wheat.
	1814.	May. 3. the period for sowing wheat is from Oct. 10. to Nov. 10. What is sown either earlier or later is subject to the fly.