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the woods. . On the appearance of the fieldfare the 

 due period is pad. 



I think I am not deceived in my obfervation, 

 that wheat thus timed is not winter-proud, and is 

 lead hurt by its poflible feverity, tillering more 

 freely in the early fpring, and confequently becom- 

 ing more produ6tive. 



This theory of fowing has been fuggefted, and 

 if I remember right recommended by two diftin- 

 guifhed naturaliftss viz. Doctor Stillingfleet, in his 

 Calendar of Flora, and Dodor Goldfmith, in his 

 Hiflory of Animated Nature; nor was it unthought 

 of in earlier periods of Englilh hufbandry : I have 

 heard a provincial adage from the mouth of an 

 jincient farmer, viz. 



'' When the floe-bufh Is as white as a fheet, 



" 'Tis time to fow your barley, dry or weet." [wet.] 



Indeed the principle, I conceive, is felf-evident, 

 " If the ftork knows his time, and the fwallow his 

 feafon of coming;" and as it is a fad that the birds 

 of pafTage are not always periodical to a day, to a 

 week, perhaps to a month; it will almoft be ne- 

 cefTarily educed, that their fubfiftence is not pre- 

 pared, that nature hath not undergone a change 

 proper for their return, and in courfe fhe is not 



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