These he sowed, and the crop was forty eight gallons.

Thus it multiplied, until the time came to distribute it to other farmers at a high price.

The cultivation of Chidham wheat by Mr.Woods at one side of the county, synchronised with the breeding of the best Southdown sheep by John Ellman at the other, as we shall see later.
South of Chichester stretches the Manhood peninsula, of which Selsey is the principal town: the part of Sussex most neglected by the traveller.
In a county of hills the stranger is not attracted by a district that might almost have been hewn out of Holland.

But the ornithologist knows its value, and in a world increasingly bustling and progressive there is a curious fascination in so remote and deliberate a region, over which, even in the finest weather and during the busiest harvest, a suggestion of desolation broods.

Nothing, one feels, can ever introduce Success into this plain, and so thinking, one is at peace.
[Sidenote: THE MONOTONY OF MANHOOD] A tramway between Chichester and Selsey has to some extent opened up the east side of the peninsula, but the west is still remote and will probably remain so.