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fields, large tuflbcks of bladed wheat, which I 

 knew arofe from the refervoirs of corn colledled 

 by the field moufe ; which tufTocks either Iprout 

 from her magazine when faturated by rain, or more 

 probably by the death of the architedb. 



I took a part of t\vo or three, of thefe tuflfocks 

 matted together at the roots, and divided them 

 fingly, or rarely left more than two roots conjoined ; 

 I placed them in dibbled holes, on a frefh turned - 

 up bank, much under the fame regulation as the 

 pradlice of dropping wheat in Norfolk j with this 

 difference only, by a flant direction of a fhorter dib- 

 ble prefTing the earth to the fibres. 



I had the pleafure of feeing that thefe generally 

 fucceededi though not in a foil fo well adapted for 

 wheat, as that whence thefe cluftered parcels were 

 taken; yet they are now profperous in ear, with a 

 full fathomed grain, as thofe in the field from whence 

 they were extradted. 



Perhaps expedlation from the hoards of the field 

 mice, which yet with us feems every year certain, 

 would be a too precarious dependance: flill a cer- 

 tainty might be derived from thinning a proud pro- 

 duce (which would be mended by its redudion) pr 



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