is one foot of land in America naturally 

 capable of producing a grain of battledore 

 barley. 



Of wheat there is an early white kind, 

 very much in use at present ; concerning 

 which, it is said that some observant man 

 picked up a single ear that was much earlier 

 than the rest, and that all this has been 

 produced from it. The wheat before that 

 time was what we call red purkey, and is in 

 great use now. There is a sort of Bearded 

 wheat which is raised in that country, later 

 in harvest, but not in general use. 



Oats are some of the Poland kind, and 

 are sold higher than any others. The 

 greater part is what we in England call 

 short smalls : but they may be fairly term- 

 ed long smalls ; for of all the productions of 

 America, oats are the worst : in many case* 

 they do not weigh above six stone per sack, 

 fourteen pounds to the stone ; and they 

 are of a nasty dingy colour, as if they had 

 had rain ; or, when that has not been the 

 case, I believe, a sort of mildew as the 



