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out highways, and felling the afhes; which, if the 

 weeds are burnt without being fuffered to flame, 

 are very fine manure, efpecially for cold wet lands. 

 I obferve you have very judicioufly offered a pre* 

 mium on this head, which will doubtlefs have a 

 good eft 



The practice of fowing Spring wheat has of late 

 years incrcafed in many places,, but not much with 

 us, although in the few inftances tried it has fuc- 

 ceeded very well. This method has one advan- 

 tage* to wit, that of affording time for the land 

 r.o receive the influence of frofts, and to be got 

 in finer tilth than it could be if fown in autumn. 

 The plants are feldom fo vigorous, but the cars 

 are as well filled, and the grain as large, as when 

 fown in October or November. This, on the 

 whole, feems an advantage; for if early fowing 

 be a means to increafe the bulk of the ft raw, it 

 muft for the fame reafon leffen the quantity of 

 grain. Nor is this all: Autumn fown wheat is in 

 greater danger by fpring frofts. The froft affects 

 every plant more or lefs; and the farther it is ad- 

 vanced in its growth, the more froft injures it. 

 A degree of froft deftroys a plant of wheat when 

 near or in the ear, which affects it very little in 

 the winter. 



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