On The Western Side Of Clarke's* House The Wheat
And Maize Are Bad, But On The Eastern Side Is A Field Supposed To Be
The Best In The Colony.
I thought it of good height, and the ears well filled,
but it is far from thick.
[*Dod, who is mentioned in my former journal of this place, had died
some months ago. And Mr. Clarke, who was put in his room, is one of
the superintendants, sent out by government, on a salary of forty pounds
per annum. He was bred to husbandry, under his father at Lewes in Sussex;
and is, I conceive, competent to his office of principal conductor
of the agriculture of Rose Hill.]
While I was looking at it, Clarke came up. I told him I thought
he would reap fifteen or sixteen bushels an acre; he seemed to think
seventeen or eighteen. I have now inspected all the European corn.
A man of so little experience of these matters as myself cannot speak
with much confidence. Perhaps the produce may average ten bushels an acre,
or twelve at the outside. Allowance should, however, be made in estimating
the quality of the soil, for the space occupied by roots of trees,
for inadequate culture, and in some measure to want of rain. Less has fallen
than was wished, but this spring was by no means so dry as the last.
I find that the wheat grown at Rose Hill last year weighed fifty-seven
pounds and a half per bushel.
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