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produce nothing elfe for a long time j it is for this 

 reafon, that the culture, very flightly recommended 

 fome years ago, is now abfolutely decried. Buck- 

 wheat, the produce of which is fometimes very 

 confiderable, when it grows, has not the fame in- 

 conveniencci but it is the moft tender of all plants, 

 and the moft uncertain -, the flighteft intemperance 

 of the feafon reduces its produce to nothings and 

 one may venture to affirm, that thofe countries in 

 Europe, which depend on buck-wheat for their 

 fubfiftence, run a rifk of being frequently threatened 

 with a famine.* 



Before I favv M. Linguet's Treatlfe, I did not 

 know that there were no poor people in Ireland 

 and Scotland; but I know very well, that if the 

 police does not hinder it, there is a great number 

 in all fertile countries, becaufe the indigent, from 

 the poorer diftrids, will go thither, 



I do not believe, and permit me to tell you fo. 

 Sir, that one fackf of wheat takes more from the 



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* But little IS fown in this country^, where It is feldom ufed but for 

 fattening ppultry; and they fow only the buck-wheat of Britanny. 

 As the months of July, Auguft, and September, when it is on the 

 ground, are often very dry, perhaps it would be better to fow the 

 large buck-wheat, which grows better in dry feafons. 



•f What is called in this country a fack of wheat, ought to weigh 

 two hunted pqunds : And an iiigenious phyf^cian at Lyons, ©ne of 



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