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to bring forward our grain as early as possible that it 
may be ful/ and ripe before the common mildews come. 
A New-EncLanp-mMan.* 
* I never knew who was the author of this theory of mil- 
dews ; but am inclined to think it was Peter Oliver Esq. 
then a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts. ‘Two 
or three years after its publication, I became acquainted with 
him. He lived in the country, and was _ fond of agricultural 
enquiries and pursuits. To him also, I believe, the public 
was indebted for a second edition of the Reverend Dr. El- 
liot’s essays on field husbandry, written more than sixty 
years ago; the earliest American production on the subject. 
BeyP 
ist, January 1810. 
It is agreeable to know, that our countryman has long since 
anticipated the ideas of the modern agriculturalists of Europe. 
The frequent injurious effects of new dung upon grain, espe- 
cially wheat, are now fully ascertamed, and were mentioned 
im our first volume, in the paper-on ‘smut in wheat.” 
The proposition of the rope to agitate the grain, and shake 
off the dew, has been recently proposed by British agricultu- 
ral writers. 
J. M. 
