Account of Sed e Wheat, frV. 



I cculd mark to the furrow, where the different kinds 

 were sown : the red- bearded was entirely destroyed, but 

 the Brunswick produced a good crop. 



Believing I had discovered a remedy for what I 

 thought a great evil, I conversed with a number of far- 

 mers, and found where the two kinds of wheat had been 

 sown in the same field, and divided by a head-land, or 

 turning, that the red wheat was destroyed and the Bruns- 

 wick not injured, and in all cases the Brunswick wheat 

 was not stunted. I continued to sow this wheat on dis- 

 eased ground, for several years, but I did not like it, and 

 procured other kinds. I got some smooth wheat from 

 Wye river on this peninsula, and this wheat also escaped 

 the stunt. I procured from Delaware some red chaff 

 smooth wheat, which had a high character, but this was 

 entirely destroyed early in April ; I then tried the old 

 yellow-bearded wheat: this was delicious food for the 

 worm. 



We have a smooth wheat lately introduced into this 

 part of the state, which has a brown or purple straw, and 

 called blue straw wheat. It is a valuable acquisition to 

 those who have been injured by the stunt ; it is a yellow 

 plump grain, ripens as early as the red wheat, and yields 

 well from the straw. One of my neighbours sowed 

 some of this wheat on stunted ground in 1813, and al- 

 though the season 1814, was wet and unfavourable, the 

 grain was good and it yielded well. 



I procured some of this wheat in 1814, which in 1815 

 produced a good crop on stunted ground. I, last spring, 

 examined a number of fields, and inquired of gentle- 

 men who had sown it, and could not discover that in any 

 case it had been injured. In my own field I had a posi- 



