7 sheubichs are Parafies of the Wheat, > => v13 
for the fame circumftances would be favourable‘ to the production 
of both; although we have reafon to be thankful that the latter - 
is much the moft common of the two. 1 doubt not but thefe gen- 
tlemen will readily excufe my diffent from their fentiments in this - 
inftaüce ; and fhould future examination prove me in the wrong, I 
fhall with pleafure retract. In fubjeéts not thoroughly difcuffed and 
"tindétflood, the collifion of opinions contributes very muüch to bring 
- Tn the year 1797 the wheat fuffered much by the bight, or mildew 
ás'o&t farmers more commonly call it, by far the worft enemy of that 
grain; and I had frequent opportunities of examining into the caufe 
dE it; "The ears that were injured by it were to be diftinguifhed ata 
y their blacknefs ; and when ‘brought clofe-to 
«d as if foót; or fome other fatty: powder, had 
above, by Ure | Frumenti at the fame time.» ‘Some farmers, whom 1 
- shave confulted; have! told mé that the ftraw is:always injur 1; but 
- others have confirmed my own obfervation in the field: above men- 
tioned, that itis notinvariablyfoo I. fhould obferve; that the foliage . 
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