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Many of our beft farmers are now got into the 

 method of planting their wheat as they do in Nor- 

 folk, and their fuccefs has overcome the mod 

 obf linage prejudices which the common people en- 

 tertained againft fo excellent a practice. They 

 generally plant about two pecks per acre by hand, 

 and moftly on clover lays, at five (hillings and fix- 

 pence expence. Your fociety can never turn their 

 attention to a more interefting object ihan the ren- 

 dering this practice general; and fb far as their 

 endeavours to extend it are fuccefsful, they will 

 deferve the thanks of the nation. 



R. M. 



To preferve Seedling Turnips from the Fly. 



To a quart of turnip-feed add one ounce of 

 brimftone finely powdered, putting both into a 

 bottle large enough to afford room to fhake them 

 well together every day for four or five days previous 

 to fowing ; keep the bottle well corked. This has 

 by long experience been proved never to fail. 



G. K. 



Method of dejlroying Weevils in Wheat. 



Monsieur de Brosses, firft Prefident of the 

 Parliament of Dijon in France, finding that the 



infects 



