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prefervation ; and this is fo well confirmed by re* 

 pcatcd obfervacions, that it is no longer to be 

 doubted, that wheat is the moft durable of all 

 eatable grain. 



The care it require^ in grinding is connmon to 

 all other forts of grain i ^pd the accidents \vbicH 

 they are liable to are as many as thofe of wheat: 

 their produce is ^ot fo certain j and, finally, the 

 draw of vyheat is of more general ufe and import- 

 ance than that of any other grain. 



Maize ^nd Millet impoverifh land very confi-, 

 deraWys and in thofe countries wherp;.ipaize flou- 

 riflies the bcft, the owners, when they leafe out the 

 farm.s, particularly fpecify, that only fuch a portion 

 pf the arable lands fhall be fown with maize : and 

 \n Pi^diji^^on^, one of the diftri.cSs where they culti- 

 vate the. maft> this proporcioa is not to exceed thq 

 forty-eighth part. 



With regard to Rice, every one knows, that it 

 will not grow without being under water; and that 

 four months oiit of the fix that it is ih the ground, 

 ^he. lar^d muftjbe kept flooded ^ confequently the 

 countries 'wheije rice is cultivated, are very unheal- 

 thy j, and" in the county of Verceil, a man of forty 



years of age is old and decrepid^ 



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