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tive proof of i:s excellence, for although I had the blue 

 straw grain sown over more ground than had previously 

 appeared to be diseased I found the evil had encreased ; 

 the blue straw was thick and luxuriant where it joined 

 the red wheat; the red was much injured for several 

 lands next to it. 



In order to ascertain whether the red wheat would 

 thrive on stunted ground which had been sown with 

 Brunswick, I ploughed and enclosed a small piece of 

 ground in a field which had been much injured when 

 sown in red-bearded, but had produced two crops of 

 Brunswick. I sowed this enclosure with red wheat, it 

 did not appear to be injured in the beginning of April. 

 At that time the fence was removed, a number of the 

 plants were transplanted into the garden, and the field 

 ploughed and planted in corn, those plants continued to 

 prosper, and I had sanguine hopes that the experiment 

 would succeed; sometime in May they were accidentally 

 destroyed in the garden, but from their appearance the 

 last time I viewed them, (I did not reside on that farm,) 

 I believed the red wheat would escape the disease. After 

 the ground had produced the Brunswick, and in order to 

 prove it fully, I sowed the ground from whence the plants 

 had been taken to the garden, and indeed all the stunted 

 ground then in tillage, with red wheat, but I suffered for 

 my temerity, the stunt had increased considerably, and 

 my crop was injured more than usual, this ground pro- 

 duced last season a good crop of blue straw. 



One of my field corners which was opposite to a lot 

 divided by the public road before- mentioned, had been 

 partially affected in 1809. In 1810, I sowed it in wheat 

 from Wye, but it had been damaged : it came up too 



