ENGLISH WHEAT.
There are many harvests : potatoes, sugar, roots, hops, wool, fruit, and even flowers. Milk has become within the last few years a more valuable product in the aggregate than grain. But we think of harvest in terms of corn, or even more narrowly in terms of wheat. Yet in our markets English wheat is belittled and underrated. It is sweeter in taste than imported wheat ; and some of the new varieties, notably Sir Rowland Biffen's Yeoman IL, are nearly as " strong." The area of wheatland• grows smaller, and some think we may soon grow it only for chicken food. Yet there are signs— one given by the New Health Society—that at last some of the qualities of English wheat are being recognized ; and more power to the elbow of this school !
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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