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btilliels ; dnd feveral bufhels befide are in referVtf^ 

 or already committed to the ground.* 



I found it difficult to be lefs circumftantial, if I 

 would be explicit; and as a reference to what has 

 been experienced, fpeaks more ftrongly than mere 

 defcription, you will excufe a poflible redundance j 

 yet I may add, that this peculiarly acquired wheat 

 continues perfedl in its quality, and largely pro- 

 du6tive of quantity. In the laft iriftance none of 

 its- feveral promoters, but are ready and have de* 

 clared, that their cajl has been from four to eight 

 buihels per acre more than their ordinary produce 

 on land equally tempered, and under a fimilar mode 

 of propagation. I cannot yet fpeak to my own ab- 

 folute produce, as nearly half remains unthrefhed j 

 but I believe it will be more than in proportion to 

 the largeft quantity mentioned by my neighbours 

 to have grown on the land before. I may farther 

 addi from different reprefentations I have received, 

 that it is perfedtly devoid, through the feveral trials 

 it has undergone, of the polluted flrain from which 

 it originated. I repeatedly walked down the fur- 

 rows where nf>ine grew, without detedling any ap- 

 proach to fmut; nor has any difcovery of this 



* Its ufc, I conceive is- extending; at this time the clerk of tlie 

 cotinty (P. French, efq;) is fetting about five acres of the feed withia 

 a par^^chial dillri<5l of this city. 



pernicious 



