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tions on Tranfplanting and Dividing the roots of 

 Wheat, in their fecond volume of Seled: Papers.* 

 This flattering tertimony of the approbation of Co 

 refpeclable a body of gentlemen, encourages me to 

 offer fomething further on the fubjetfl, and (as you 

 defire) to fign it with my name. 



I have read the notes which the Society thought 

 proper to add to my former letter, and give them 

 my hearty approbation. What I have now to 

 offer, is freely fubmittcd to fuch remarks and 

 animadvcrfions as the fuperior judgment of the 

 Committee may deem proper. 



My imagination is (till deeply engaged in the 

 theory of the divifibility of corn; and I am exer- 

 cifing my invention in attempts to produce a plan 

 whereby the theory may be reduced to pradlice. I 

 am well pleafed to find that the prailice of har- 

 rowing and rolling corn, after it has fprung up, 

 meets, and has received, the fandion of the So- 

 ciety. It has been one of my favourite fchemes 

 for fome time pad ; and I am under a thorough 

 convidion, that, were the pradice to become ge- 

 neral in this kingdom, it would be very rare to fee 

 a bad crop; and we fhould never feel the diftreffing 

 cffedls of a fcarcity of g^ain. Suffer me to intrcat 



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