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N. B. The above account of cultivating buck- 

 wheat appearing very extraordinary and unnecef- 

 farily expenfive, we (hall fubjoin the remarks made 

 on it by a very ingenious gentleman farmer from 

 Suffolk, who has long cultivated this grain in a very 

 different and much more profitable manner. 



" To the Committee. 

 <c Gentlemen, 

 €t The letter on the cultivation of Buckwheat, 

 on which you defire my fentiments, appears to have 

 been written by a gentleman totally unacquainted 

 with the management of that particular grain, and 

 not fufficiently verfed in the true principles of 

 agriculture. 



Cf His foil was of the bed quality, and advan- 



tageoufly fituated j but what rational, practical 



farmer would, after one earth in November, imme- 

 diately fpread a large coat of dung on a foul wheat- 

 ftubble, allowing it to remain until the middle of 

 May following, that the fun might exhale the faline, 

 oleaginous, and every other nutritive quality from 

 it, which could enrich and fertilize the foil ? It 

 might well, as the writer obferves, be full of couch- 

 grafs and other noxious weeds. He then, after 

 ufing the couch-harrow, (which probably is an ex- 

 cellent initrument) gave this land a deep earth, and 

 / fowed 



