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fVlM> pal d these st.itcmttifn of one 

 hundred bll^htI^ c»t IiulLm - ii, tuny 

 bushels of wheat, fnrty bushels c»f barley, 

 is without cither knowledge or caKulaiif^n, 

 which I know to be the case* But all cal- 

 c produce, in a gi I 



way ; and all crops in America are more 

 11 to I' rtunc than the ^inEiu- 



land, for many reasons ; — tla- shortness of 

 the season to sow the spring crop ; the little 

 time it remains on the land, only from May 

 to the latter end of June, to grow and 

 ripen ; and in wheat, the Hessian fly, which 

 often totally destroys llie crop; the rustaiul 

 scab, Ml as to prevent any produce at all, in 

 I: :ii. I is a worm which i!e- 



strovs the led ; and the blackbirds often 

 peck if otit of the rround ; which is soon 

 cfT tew in number 



on enrh liill. I ^tvj* heard old corn grow- 

 ern s.Tv, that iluv soiii ' ivc to plant 



ihret' limes in ik \* ...a I saw the 



fini : " in com .it Mr. Lloyd's, he s.ild 

 thc:^ > .1. in some places a great deal dc« 



