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tvheat which I had fown with blended but common 

 (trains of wheat, and in his walk he gathered fomc 

 ears of fmutty corn j in the examination of which 

 he detected in four of them eight or nine found 

 grains} which grains he referved, and at the com- 

 mon feed-time drenched with brine, which he 

 ufually prepared for his feed, and planted them in 

 his garden in the year 1783. Thefe grains pro- 

 duced many ears in 1784, which were generally 

 clofer fet, and more numeroufly produdive of 

 grain than the frequent drains of wheat. He fe- 

 ledled the clofer fet wheat, and dibbled in their 

 grain, feparate from any other; the produce of 

 which was about a quarter of a peck. In 1785 

 thofe dibbled in the fame manner, that feafon, pro- 

 duced in the following autumn about half a bufhel, 

 which produced by the fame mode about nine 

 bufhels in 1787, which he principally retained, and 

 had dibbled on feveraJ acres; the general produce 

 of which, where he preferved his wheat unblended, 

 was uniformly of the quality of the referved ori- 

 ginal ears of 1784. In 1788 he diftributed for 

 ft:ed (above his own referve) to his relations and 

 friends. I had four bufliels of this unmixed qua- 

 lity, which preferved its fpecifick appearance, and 

 attracted the notice of many farmers, one of whom 

 has Iblicitcd and obtained from me twenty-four 



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