On Blight in Wheat. 



the crop will be explained. It will perhaps be found by 

 experience, that the closer it is allowed to lie upon the 

 ground, and the sooner it is bound up in sheaves, (pro- 

 A ided the natural ascent of the sap to the ear be not 

 thereby interrupted,) the more effectual and complete 

 will be the remedy. Further, it may be suggested, 

 on the evidence of attentive observation, that if wheat 

 which has been attacked by this disease be suffered to 

 remain in the field with the ears exposed, until it may 

 have received the ameliorating influence of de\\s or 

 moderate rain, (to soften, relax, and assist the natural 

 rise of the sap) the more productive it will become." 

 See minutes of agriculture, in Surrey. No. 4. 



" And it may be added, that grain which is cut while 

 under ripe, is less liable to be injured in the field by 

 moist weather, than that which has stood until it be fully 

 over ripe.* 



^ Marshall's Rural (Economy of west of England. 



