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juices will support the kernel in the same state as 

 when you cut the grain ; it will rather swell than 

 shrink, after cutting. This is always safe, and must 

 not be neglected, if you regard the value of your crop. 

 The same causes often produce the same effects upon 

 rye, and the same remedy will always prove effec- 

 tual. I have said nothing in particular of the seve- 

 ral kinds of wheat in common use. I have sown the 

 white bald wheat and the red- bearded wheat, gene- 

 rally, and when free from rust, they have done well*. 

 The red- bearded spring wheat, when the seed can be 

 obtained from Canada, or Vermont, I have found to an- 

 swer well, for one or two years ; but never the third, 

 from the growth of the same seed ; it then runs out, 

 and must be renewed from the northern country. I 

 have generally found my spring wheat more inclined 

 to smut than the winter wheat, unless I use the pre- 

 caution of steeping and rinsing it, as before observed. 

 The stiff straw wheat, which is now coming into use, 

 may become -a safe crop against the Hessian fly, 

 which alone will render it a great acquisition to our 

 country ; should it prove equally safe against lodg- 

 ing, when grown too stout and rank, as well as 

 against the rust, and the fly, it will soon become of 

 universal use upon this we hope much ; but I can 

 say nothing from experience, and have seen no au- 

 thentic experiments on which I can rely. 



Steeping and rinsing seed-wheat to prevent rust, 

 have been fully noticed. Several other remedies are 

 noticed by Sir John Sinclair, as practised in England, 

 viz. selecting the red wheats generally, as being 

 hardier than the white. Sowing earlier than the 

 common mode, say on or about the 1st of September, 

 instead of 1st of October, that the wheat may become 

 ripe before the usual times of rust come on. Sowing 

 thicker also at the same time, he remarks, will some- 



* In all the recent experiments in the Agricultural Society of Hart- 

 lord County, a great preference has ben justly given to tlc rcd- 

 bca-rded wheat. 



