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suit of this experiment, more especially as 

 regards the encrease of seed, having been in- 

 formed by him that from then' alternate frosts 

 and rains in winter, the wheat plants are very 

 liable to be thrown out, a circumstance which 

 renders it, with them, unsafe to sow wheat after 

 September, or consequently following Indian 

 corn, which does not ripen till October. This 

 appeared to me an obvious additional reason 

 for thicker sowing. 



I conceive also that Mr Marx should find 

 spring wheat an advantageous crop. I am 

 aware that summer follows winter so rapidly 

 here, as to leave but little interval for spring 

 work, but spring com to a certain extent is ne- 

 vertheless cultivated ; and if the wheat land 

 were prepared and the manure well ploughed in 

 before winter, there should not I think be any 

 difficulty in sowing and harrowing the seed as 

 soon as winter departs. Throwing out the 

 plants by frost would be thus avoided, and the 

 excellence of the climate would secure the 

 seasonable perfecting of the spring sown crop. 



Mr Marx enjoys a great advantage in hav- 



