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good feafon, as I have repeatedly experienced fe-* 

 Veral years paft. I have fowed red lammas, white 

 lammas, bearded or cone, and white wheat from 

 America, called by fome Qiiebeck wheat, all which 

 fucceeded equally well. 06t. 28, 1789, I fowed 

 about nine acres, part of a field of fourteen, with 

 white cone wheat ; the remainder of the field was 

 fo foul and out of tilth, that I determined not to 

 fow it till fpring ; and not with wheat then, unlefs 

 it could be got into proper tilth. 1 had it ploughed 

 into very narrow ridges, and in that condition it 

 remained till the 9th day of February, when it was 

 fown on four-bout ridges, four rows on each ridge. 

 It cut a very poor figure till the month of May, 

 infomuch that the farmers in the neighbourhood 

 advifed my man to plough it up and fow it with 

 barley. From this time it grew away at a great 

 rate, and was in all refpedls as good corn as any 

 that grew upon the farm ; and though of a fpecies 

 that is later in ripening than moft others, it was not 

 above eight or ten days later than that which was 

 fown in October in the fame field. 



It is not meant by this to infinuate, that fowing 

 wheat in the fpring is preferable to fowing it in the 

 autuirm. The autumn, communibus aunts y is on many 

 accounts to be preferred. But I am thoroughly 



convinced 



