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Class 3.— SUBSTANCES USED AS FOOD.South Gallery.
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Wheat 65 lbs. per bushel; chevalier barley 56 lbs. perbushel; and malt 43 lbs. per bushel.
71 The Truro Local Committee —Producers.
Specimens of Cornish agricultural grains:—Black bar-ley, skinless barley, grown and supplied by J. D. Gilbert,Esq., of Trelissick, near Truro . Indian corn, grown andsupplied by Colonel Scoble, of Nansalvern, near Penzance .
Cornish red wheat, grown oil the granite soils, especiallyadapted to the exposed situations in the neighbourhoodof Penzance, and Cornish white wheat: the best sort tobe grown on the high and exposed land of Cornwall ;supplied by Mr. John Michell, of Feock, near Truro .Cornish barley, grown and supplied by the same, adaptedfor malting and grinding purposes. Agricultural produce,grown and supplied by the Rev. R. M. N. Eusticke, ofPenwame, in Mawnan, adapted for feeding cattle andpoultry; grown on the poor and exposed peat soils ofCornwall.
72 Webb, Richard, Calcot Farm, Reading —
Producer.
Mummy Talavera wheat. Three grains of this wheatare said to have been found in the hand of an Egyptianmummy, and sent to Mr. Dobree, President of the Agri-cultural Society in Guernsey , who planted the same inhis garden, and forwarded the produce to Col. Blagrovethe following year. This produce he has successfullygrown as a spring crop, and from it the present sample,grown by the exhibitor, is a specimen, the quality andcrop being alike good.
[Much doubt has been raised as to the origin of themummy wheats. The Egyptian wheat ( Triticum compo-situm) is very different from the variety of commonwheat (Tr. vidgarc'), called "Talavera.” The Egyptianwheat has a head composed of three spikes, one erect inthe centre, similar to the common wheat, and on eitherside another, not quite so large, attached to the base ofthe centre, and standing out at a small angle from it.Our climate is not suited to its growth, as, in the courseof one or two years, the side spikes entirely disappear,and a coarse, thick-skinned grain is produced.—J. W.]
Specimen of the Wellington apple.
73 Raynbird, Robert, Hengrave, near Bury St.Edmunds —Producer.
Sack of Kessingland wheat, grown upon a light soil, atHengrave, Suffolk ; this is a productive and new varietyof wheat.
Sack of Chevalier barley, grown at Hengrave.
Sack of tick beans with white eyes, grown at Hengrave;a variety, called "Manchester white eyes.”
7 4 Raynbird, Hugh, Laverstoke, Andover Road,
Specimens of wheat produced by hybridization.
Specimens of Hopetoun and Piper’s thickset wheat—the variety from which the hybrids were obtained, by fer-tilizing its pistils with pollen from the stamens of theHopetoun wheat. To effect this, the stamens of theflower of the thickset variety were removed before theynad reached maturity, by opening each of the glumes andcarefully picking out the stamens upon the point of aneedle: the pistils of the flower being left perfect, were alew days afterwards fertilized by dusting them with thepollen from stamens brought from the Hopetoun varietyof wheat; this produced a great number of varieties, par-taking more or less of the parent stocks, and from thesehe four specimens exhibited were selected.
[In the hybridization of plants experiments are alwaysof much interest, and often productive of very importantresults, as the good qualities of two varieties may beobtained, or their bad qualities be counteracted. Hybridsobtained by the judicious intermixture of species, fre-quently produce seeds capable of giving origin to plants
combining the characters of the two different parents;but hybrids produced by species closely allied but reallydistinct gradually lapse into the one or the other of theoriginals, and thus become extinct.—J. W.]
75 Kendall, John, Treverlin, Truro, Cornwall —Producer.
Sheaf of white wheat, named " The giant straw wheat*”grown by the exhibitor in quantities of from 10 to 15 acresfor the last 10 years. This wheat is stated to have pro-duced, on an average, 60 bushels per acre. Its supe-riority consists in the length, size, and stiffness of thestraw, and in its abundant produce.
77 Taylor, John, & Son, Bishop Stortford, Herts —
Manufacturers.
Varieties of malt, viz.:—
Amber, used in brewing ordinary ales and porter.Coloured, used for same purpose.
"White, used in brewing pale ales.
Brown, used in brewing porter to give it flavour andcolour.
[The various colours described are given to the malt bythe different temperatures to which it is submitted afterthe germination is stopped. The essential oil containedin the barley is acted upon by heat, and different flavoursare also produced. In the brown malt the saccharinematter is partially carbonized, and a peculiar empyreu-matic flavour obtained.—J. W.]
78 Wellsman, John , Moulton , near Newmarket —
Manufacturer.
Sample of pale malt, manufactured from Chevalierbarley.
79 Maund, Benjamin, F.L.S., Bromsgrove —
Producer.
Specimens of wheat, artificially hybridized, showingthat its exterior form, and probably its chemical proper-ties, can be modified, and its productiveness improved.
80 Wrench, R., & Son, London Bridge —Producers.
Specimens of various kinds of grain most familiar tothe London market.
82 Payne, H., Birdbrook Moat, near Halstead —
Producer.
Varieties of grain.
83 Strange, William, Banbury — Producer.
Samples of beans grown, in 1850, on stiff clay soil,
without phosphate of lime or magnesia, and in cultivation,with 22 per cent, of phosphate of lime and magnesia.
85 Milne, Woi., Rhynie, Scotland — Producer.
One quarter of Scotch barley oats.
86 Walker, William, Mossat, near Aberdeen —Producer.
Sample of Kildrummie oats.
88 Cousens, S., Great Bentley, near Colchester —Producer.
White wheat, new variety; weight of imperial bushel,64 lbs. net.
90 Fox, John James, Devizes —Proprietor.Specimens of red straw-white Essex wheat, and of
Nursery, Lammas, and Talavera red wheat, grown inWiltshire.__
90a Cahill, M., Ballyraggit, Kilkenny Producer.
Samples of wheat, oats, and barley, grown at GroveKilkenny. ___
91 Stevens, Richard, Stamford Producer.
Sample of wheat, Collyweston white.
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