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| Cobbett's HampshireTranscription (72) |
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Burghclere |
previous We got to BURGHCLERE about eight o'clock, after a very disagreeable day; but we found ample compensation in the house, and all within it, that we were now arrived at. |
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Burghclere fox hunting wheat tullian wheat Budd, Mr turnip |
It rained steadily this morning [at Burghclere], or else, at the
end of the six days of hunting for GEORGE and two for me, we
should have set off. The rain gives me time to give an account
of Mr. BUDD'S crop of TULLIAN WHEAT. It was sown in rows and on
ridges, with very wide intervals, ploughed all summer. If he
reckon that ground only which the wheat grew upon, he had one
hundred and thirty bushels to the acre; and even if he reckoned
the whole of the ground, he had 28 bushels all but two gallons
to the acre! But, the best wheat he grew this year, was dibbled
in betwen (sic) rows of Swedish Turnips, in November, four rows
upon a ridge, with an eighteen inch interval between each two
rows, and a five feet interval between the outside rows on each
ridge. It is the white cone that Mr. Budd sows. He had ears
with 130 grains in each. This would be the farming for labourers
in their little plots. ...
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