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Another Letter from the above Gentleman, 



AS I am exceedingly impatient to have 



your opinion of my favourite fpeculation of propa- 

 gating wheat by tranfplanting and dividing its 

 roots in the fpring, I beg you will, as foon as con- 

 venient, fay what occurs on the fubjecl. 



Since I wrote to you lalV, I have converfcd much 

 w ith many pradical farmers, who all admit that my 

 plan has the appearance not only of being pradtical, 

 but advantageous. I have alfo feen, in the ninth 

 number of Mr. Young's Annals of Agriculture, 

 the account of an experiment which ftrongly cor- 

 roborates my theory. It was made by the Rev. 

 Mr. PiKii, of Edmonton. From this, and other 

 experiments which have been made under my own 

 eye, I forefee clearly, that the fyftem is praiflicable, 

 and will certainly be productive of great benefit, 

 iliould it become general. Befides the faving of 

 nine-tenths of feed in the land fown broadcaft, 

 other very important advantages will attend the 

 fetting out of w heat from a feed-bed ; fuch as, an 

 early crop, the certainty of good crops, rendering 

 a fummer fallow unneceflary, faving dung, and 

 having your wheat perfectly free from weeds, 

 without either hand or horfc-hoeing. 



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