The ears are something enormous.

I would certainly recommend every farmer to make his own experiments, for if it succeeds, it will prove a great economy of seed; and drills to distribute it fairly are to be had." Truly one of Hallett's wheat ears might displace the old cornucopia in that picture of happy abundance so familiar to old and young.
Here are twenty ears from one seed, containing probably a thousand grains.

The increase of a thousand-fold, or half that ratio, is prodigious, having nothing to equal it in the vegetable world that we know of.

If one bushel of seed wheat could be so distributed by a drill as to produce 500 or 250 bushels at the harvest, certainly the staff of life would be greatly cheapened to the millions who lean upon it alone for subsistence.
From Oundle I walked the next day to Stamford, a good, solid, old English town, sitting on the corners of three counties, and on three layers of history, Saxon, Dane and Norman.

The first object of interest was a stone bridge over the Nen at Oundle.