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for there they j;Tlnd and drefs all for fine bread ; but, T fup- 

 pofe, witli fcimc p^ins, you may get it rione to your mind at 

 tlie mill. The wheat feafon was fo extremely good lad vear, 

 that there was more of this grain fown all over England, than 

 ever was known ; and if they had enjoyed good harveft weather, 

 ?hey would have had a vail crop of it ; though all corns, thi^ 

 year, will be thick-ikinned and coarfe, by what tlu^y ufe to be 

 in a dry year when there is fun and heat. We have had very 

 bad harveft weather thefe ten days, which will fpoil a great 

 deal, and make much unwholefome corn. As the demand 

 lately from abroad has carried off much of the old flock, what 

 is got well in, will give a price, if the great x^uantity of bad 

 grain which mud be quickly brought to market do not keep it 

 down. Mod of the farmers, however, will do pretty well up- 

 on the whole, having got a good price for the old, which, with 

 the quantity they now have, will make up to them for the 

 fpoilt i biit if they had got a dry harved, aiul fo have had 

 ^'heat firm and hard for exportation, they would have made 

 vadly, and a great fum of money mud have come into the 

 country from abroad. When it proves a bad wheat feed time, 

 many keep their wheat land for barley, in hopes of a better 

 feafon then ; but lad wheat feed time invited many to fow 

 their hnd with wheat, which they had deiigned for barley, by 

 which they faved labour (a tiling too feldom reckoned upon 

 with us), and being fure of a favourable feafon for wheat {ttd^ 

 they did not care to trud to what was an uncertainty, and at a 

 didance. f wKh your h.arved may prove more favourable than 

 it does to the farmers jud now here. If it doe?, you will not 

 repent having enriched your land enough for carrying wheat. 



* Your turnips ought to have been hoed before this ; that 

 would have loofened the ground about their roots, and have 

 helped them to fwell ; would have likewife killed the wild oats, 

 mudard, atid other trafn, and been of great fervice to your 

 ground. I widi you had tried to fow thtm at different times^ 

 ten days, or a fortnight's difference, to try whicr; did bed. They 

 fhoiild be hoed when the leaves are not fo big 2;> half a cr(;wn, 

 and left at nine or ten inches didance the fird hr ^ng. \\^ af- 

 ter hoeing, yon find them not fw(;l!, the land will nuke good 

 "wheat about Michaelmas ; for you need wait no longer than 

 that time for their nlpeing. I wrote feveral letters to my bro^ 

 ther, and to Brown, about the method of burning of clay. I 

 got informat:ion at different times ; fo no one of m.y letters can 

 !how you all that I wrote. This haa been a very unfavourable 

 year foi it \ but I think the thing fecms to carry reafon, if an 

 pafy method can be found for burning it. You tell me one 



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