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tlon as formerly. Would it not therefore be pru- 

 dent to promote its cultivation by every means 

 confiflent with convenience and general ceconomy ? 



In the enumeration of modern improvements, 

 that of fowing wheat occafionally in the fpring 

 (hould not be omitted. By fpring wheat feems to 

 be meant, by writers on this fubjedl, a fpecies of 

 wheat of a peculiar nature, particularly appropriated 

 to that feafon. Whether there be a real fpecifick 

 difference between this and the wheat that is in 

 common ufe, or whether it is a diftindtion without 

 a difference — a manceuvrc fabricated by the fingu- 

 lar ingenuity of the times, is more than I am able 

 to fay at prefent; but I never hear of fpring wheat 

 at I as. a bufhel, but Carolina grafs feed at two 

 guineas a quart immediately pops into my head; 

 nor can I think of fuch fuperlative ingenuity unac- 

 companied by the idea of a suitable reward. 

 Such is the power of affociation ! 



But whether fpring wheat be a fpecies totally dif- 

 ferent from the forts in common ufe or not, the 

 farmer need not be folicitous about it, for I can 

 affure him, that every fpecies of wheat in common 

 ufe among us, if fown in February, will produce 

 good plump corn, and be ripe and fit to reap in 



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