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Article XX. 



Hints for /owing various Kinds of Grain ^ from 

 certain Pbcenomena of Nature. 



[By the Same.] 

 Gentlemen, 



TTAVING often been imprefled with the idea 

 **• ^ that a better rule might be obtained for the 

 fowing the various fpecies of grain, than what 

 could be regulated by the calendar, I at length de- 

 termined to make minutes of my own periods of 

 fowing, as they were in coincidence with the blof- 

 foming of well-known trees; or on the return of 

 various birds of paflagej together with either the 

 carliefl: voice or fong of either thefe, or thofe whip h 

 are (lationary to , our climate ; with other eafily 

 obferved adjundls, which might have a tendency to 

 diredl this material bufinefs in agriculture. Not 

 confining myfelf to my own experiments, I made 

 frequent remarks on divers of my neighbours, and 

 endeavoured to ascertain the fullnefs or thinnefs of 

 their crops, as they might be at various times fown, 

 in correfponderice with the voice or appearance of 

 many of the well-known fubjeds of nature. Thele 

 remarks have been continued through feveral years, 

 i>y which I conceive I have often difcovcred whea 



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