14 Oration delivered before the Agricultural Society. 



mixture of them all is brought to market for wheat. This 

 adulteration, thq'., it. lowers the price, is howe\',er pixtty well 

 correQed by the rolliing-fcreen. But the worft vitiation that 

 ^befalls the, wheat-harveft is the commixture of rye. No ma- 

 ^•hine.lias yet been found capable of effq6tually. feparating them, 

 anjd.Jroiii the nearnefs of lize in the two forts of grain, it is not 

 likely that fuch an one can be contrived. The method of re- 

 medying this inconvenience radically, is to remove all trafli 

 from' the fallow-field, to fow nothing but the pure feed you 

 Avifh to grow, and if, after thefe two precautions, any foulnefs 

 f^6ul(3 appear, to tear up or cut off the intruding plants. Thus 

 ISy^a Titd6 additional care of the farmer, may purity be reflored 

 to our harvefls, and reputation to our markets. 



TiiE fugar of the maple-tree has become an article of fome 

 confiderable importance. It is probable, for feveral reafons, 

 it. ^rowin. jii encreafe. Firftly, The new lands of the Weft- 

 Pi?aian cane-iflands are wearing out, and as the flave-cultiva- 

 tion, which is the moll expenfive of any, ftill continues there, 

 the product and profit of the plantations muft certainly diiiii- 

 nifli. Secondly, The demand for fugar is greater than ever, 

 on account of the encreafmg population of feveral countries 

 which confumiC it, as the United States and Canada, for exam- 

 ple. Thirdly, Among people who have been for a long time 

 confumers of fugar, fafliion and habit have rendered them more 

 extravagant in the ufc of it. Fourthly, The duty impofed 

 upon foreign fugar by the acl of CungreL adds to its dearnefs* 



