WASTE OF SEED WHEAT.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 7, 19 July 1845, Page 1

WASTE OF SEED WHEAT.

On Saturday last upwards of 150 of the principal agtieulturists in the neighbourhood assembled at the residence of Mr. H. Bemnan, at Bonnington, near Stow, and proceeded to view seveial fields of wheat, planted with New berry's dibbling machine, with only five pecks of seed. Richer, heavier, or more luxuiiant ctops of wheat wete never seen. Mr. Benmaii, on the return of ihe company, tolol them that lie had used Messrs v New berry ';s dibbling machine, two seasons; and last year, bad he been able to dibble Ibe vt hole of his wheat, n saving of £160 would have been made in seed alone. Not only whs there a saving of seed, but the crop was mci cased by at least 4 bushels per acre. At a meeting of farmers lately held in Yorkshire, Mr. Lane Fox said it had been the custom in this country^ in sowing wheat, to sow as much as thiee bushels per acre. It was now found thel they could get a heavur crop by sowing only three pecks to the acre. He hart been told, and he believed it was the fact, from calculations that had been made, that the ditfetcnue between sowing only thiee pecks instead ot three bushels to the acre, would amount to a saving of not only 200,000 qrs. of wheat, but of all the wheat that had been imported for the benefit of the people. With legard to thin sowing, he would not drill at all, but he would dibble ; and he had at that moment on his farm an instance of what might be accomplished by dibbhmg. He had about aioodof giound wlncit was dibbled with common barley the lirst week in May, the rows being two feet apart and the grains three inches apart ; and afterit came up, to see w hat would be the consequence, one half of it was thinned to six inches apait ; and at the, pieseut time the amount of corn growing on that rood of land was he) ond conception He was there on the previous day with a friend who was now within hearing, and who got off his horse and took the trouble to measure the ears of grain, and the first handful that he took hold of, measured from six to eight inches in length, and he had been told by a gentleman vrhoundeistood these things peifectly well, that from the appearance of that com, it was likely to >ield to the extent of ten quarters per acre. If then, by thin sowing and dibbling, they could produce ten quarter* per acre, how easy would it be for the tenant not only to pa> his rent, but to put semething into his pocket. L\miugton, AugUbt 22, ISI3.

Monopoly,— Monopoly commits the crime of forbidding man to serve man. It ihrpws up a barrier between man and man. It interdicts human intercourse, lays an embargo on human sympathies, makes it a siatutable oflertcd to do good and communicate.