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deftruftion, fafe from the talons of the owlj and 

 here, after they have exhaufted their magazine, for 

 months they find fubfiftence from the earlieft green 

 formation of the grain to its ftate of maturation, at 

 which period it is manifeft they breed numeroufly. 

 Our laws and the occupiers of land have fet a price 

 on a winged fpecies of pillagers; while thefe fcarcely 

 obvious fubtcrranean deflroyers pillage with fecret 

 and more certain deftruftion j and the farmer's 

 undoubted friend, and their natural enemy, the owl, 

 is rarely protedled, and too eafily permitted to be 

 wantonly deftroyed. 



But to drop thefe remarks; permit me to urge 

 the principal objedl of this communication, by re- 

 peating, that a fmall portion of wheat might be 

 thickly fown at the ufual period of fowing, and 

 tranfplanted early in the fpring to ground to be 

 prepared, and then ready for its reception; and if 

 this be done with equal attention as wheat is dibbled, 

 I am confirmed in opinion, from the foregoing ex- 

 periment, that its produce will be little if any thing 

 inferior to what refults from a common fown crop. 



Your friend refpeftfully, 



JOHN WAGSTAFFE. 

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