Edward Jesse

“ In these days of new discoveries, when we can travel at the rate of a mile in a minute, and reach far distant countries in an incredibly short space of time by means of two wheels on each side of a ship, or send a message to Amsterdam from London, and receive an answer in two minutes and a half, we need not wonder that a plan has recently been discovered for greatly increasing the size of the ears of wheat. ”

“ Hallett’s Pedigree wheat will render us less dependent on foreign supplies cannot be doubted. When we consider that eighty ears have sprung from one seed, some of which have sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen sets up each side of it, this new development is little short of miraculous, and the product has been accomplished in five years by selection alone, and that on land which apparently is but little adapted for the growth of wheat, there being only about four inches of soil, with a chalk rock close beneath. ”

“ Hallett’s system were applied to all corn crops in the United Kingdom, its dependence on foreign countries for yearly supplies of breadstuffs would cease, and the immense sums now paid for such products would be so much saved of the income of the empire. The effect of such a revolution in agriculture is almost beyond our imagination to realise. ”