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I have been informed by a friend that he knew a quan- 

 tity of coarse manure drawn into a field in Autumn, 

 where it lay in heaps until the spring, when it was spread, 

 and the ground planted in corn, and sown with red wheat; 

 the wheat was entirely destroyed on those spots where 

 the loads of manure had been dropt, this case compared 

 with the 4th case stated, deserves consideration, in both 

 instances it appeared to be the effect of the weather, and 

 differs very materially from the case of the cow-pen. 



The facts herein stated, as of my own knowledge, are 

 correctly related, I feh a deep interest in the investiga- 

 tion of the subject, as it is a complaint not noticed bv 

 any European writer on agriculture, which I have peru- 

 sed, and I believe it would become much more injurious 

 than the Hessian fly* but for the remedy which is now 

 applied, I suppose it is an American disease, or it would 

 not have been overlooked by the scrutinizing eye of a 

 Young, and other British writers, however, they too may 

 err. 



" I believe the Hessian fly to be accurately described 

 in DuhamePs Elements of Agriculture, vol. 1. p. 269, 

 as quoted from Chateauvieux, and noticed in Mill's 

 Husbandry, vol. 3. p. 43. 



Your's respectfully, 



James Parker. 

 Dr. James Mease. 



NOTE. 



The stunted, or sedge wheat, accordiag to the facts shewn, 

 in the foregoing communication, affords, among a thousand 

 others, an additional proof of the necessity of change of both 



