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but weeds. This was the first appearance of the stunt 

 on this farm. 



V. On the adjoining field to the last- mentioned, and 

 near one of the bare spots before described, after plough- 

 ing the field, in August, to prepare it for wheat, a cow- 

 pen was made for the purpose of milking there, and to 

 manure the ground ; this field was sown in red-bearded 

 wheat, and had never been diseased before ; but the crop 

 was materially injured around where the cow- pen had 

 been, but the area of the pen was very luxuriant, 



Those two last cases, occurred on a farm divided by a 

 public road forty feet wide, from the farm on which the 

 three first cases were noticed ; the manure on each farfh 

 was distributed where necessary, on the farm where col- 

 lected, and not taken from the one to the other. 



I will now state to you the remedy which I have ap- 

 plied, and, will also, give you the information I have re- 

 ceived from others. 



In the month of June in the year 1805, passing through 

 the field first mentioned, then sown in red-bearded wheat, 

 I observed that where the bearded wheat had been en- 

 tirely destroyed, there were a number of plants of smooth 

 wheat growing : the plants standing single on good ground 

 were very luxuriant, and, I judged from that circum- 

 stance, that the worm required other food, and that 

 the ground would produce a crop of the smooth wheat, 

 I accordingly procured some wheat of the kind we here 

 call Brunswick wheat. It is a dark coloured, late, 

 smooth wheat, and not a profitable crop on common 

 ground, but at that time almost every other kind had 

 been discarded for the red-bearded, which was known to 

 be preferable. My experiment succeeded compleHv 



