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with fucceffron lay, which practice Is gaining ground, 

 and after oats, which have been fown on lay. 



2d. Sort. The fort mofl in ufe is a kind of brown 

 wheat, thin in the flcin, which weighs well ; befides 

 this the red lammas; but for light foils the white 

 velvet is much approved of: this is a beautiful grain, 

 and the bran is fo white, I fhould think it very advan- 

 tageous to the miller. Colonel Ward imported fome 

 of this kind from York, in the year 1800; this he dib- 

 bled, and had a return of forty fold : I faw the field in 

 June 1 80 1, when in ear; nothing could exceed the 

 beauty of it; a fpecimen he fent me is exceedingly 

 ne. Cone wheat he tried in the fame field, but it did 

 not ripen fo well ; fome of this latter fpecies, fown by 

 a gentleman near Moira, fucceeded remarkably well. 

 I faw a flieaf, tied by a ftrap made of the double length 

 of the ftraw, that yielded eighteen pounds of wheat ; 

 the ftraw was of courfe very long, and as ftrong as a 

 reed. 



3t. Steeping. This operation feems to be lofing 

 ground, as it is now confidered of little ufe, except in 

 feparating the good from the bad grain, which may be 

 as effectually performed by proper winnowing. It 

 feems very extraordinary, that any fnbftance, imbibed 

 by the feed before fowing, could prevent the fmut, a 

 diforder that is e-ntirely confined to the ear, and often 

 to a few grains in the ear; it feems to proceed from, 

 want of impregnation, not from the root, and is more 



frequently 



