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sufficient quantity of earth, straw, chip-dung, or other rub- 

 bish; and thus he will find that a pennyworth of trouble, 

 spent in the prevention of the disease, is worth a pound 

 spent in the cure. 



For destroying the common biennial weeds, sec FALLOW 

 BNG OF LAND. 



WEEVIL. See INSECTS. 



WELL. See WATER and PASTURE. 



WHEAT (Triticum ) Under different articles of this 

 Work, to wit: CHANGE OF i R -PS. CHANGE OF SEEDS, 

 DRILL, FALLOWING, GREEN-DRESSING, GYPSUM llEbsiAN- 

 FLY, HARROWING HARVESTING, AJILDEW, FOILING, SOW- 

 ING, bMUT, 1 HRESH1NG, dliti V\ ATER-FURROWING, Consider- 

 able has been said which reguiUb tiie culture oi wheat, and 

 need not here be repeated. 



There are several species of this grain ; such as, the 

 Spring wheat, and ihe different kinds of Winter-wheat; the 

 bald, the bearded^ the cone^ the Polish and the Smyrna 

 wheat) Sec. r i\ie luiter has a central tar, wiih several smaller 

 laieruJ ones, which spring from the lower end of the large 

 one. Ii requires a rich soil, and it is probable that, in tnis 

 Country, tue horse hoeing husbandry oi Mr. Tull (see NEW 

 HORSE-HOEING HUSBANDRY) would be more suitable tor it 

 than tor any other kind. 



Winter- wheat, in this State, and in some more southerly, 

 will grow on almost every dry soil that is sufficiently rich. 

 Very sandy and very gravelly soils are, however, the most 

 unsuitable. Dry red loams, with a trifle of clay in them, 

 are perhaps the best. Of the old States, the best wheat, 

 and the greatest crops, are raised in what are called the 

 Middle States, Mr. Gregg, of Pennsylvania, lately raised 

 sixteen hundred bushels irom forty acres, and crops still 

 larger have been raised in Virginia. In this State, the 

 greatest products are not quite so large; and the Eastern 

 States are still less favorable for the growth of this grain. 



The time for sowing wheat probably depends much on 

 previous habit. Thus, if it were sown a number of succes- 

 sive years by the middle of August, and then the time of 

 sowing were changed, at once, to October, the crop would 

 probably be much lighter on that account; yet, where wheat 

 has become habituated to be sown late, it will do tolerably 

 well. The later it is sown, however, the more seed is re- 

 quisite. When early sown, a bushel to the acre is believed 

 to be sufficient; but, when sown later, a bushel and an half, 

 or more, may be necessary. In England, they sow a much 

 larger quaniity than this ; but it is probably an useless 



