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Effects of Season on Crops. 



Read March 11th, 1817. 



Sir, 



In the Argus of western America bearing date the 

 10th January, 1817 ; I saw a resolution of the Philadel- 

 phia Society for Promoting Agriculture, wherein they 

 requested their Agricultural or other fellow- citizens to 

 afford such information as would tend to promote Agri- 

 culture. Whether that request extended as far as Cum- 

 berland or not, I cannot tell ; but when I first saw it 

 I resolved to communicate to you, such information 

 as I thought would be of benefit, and at the same time, 

 think perhaps the correspondence would likewise be 

 of benefit to me. I am not a farmer. But such infor- 

 mation as I can collect I will give unto thee. Mr. Wil- 

 liam Smyth informed me not long since, thatjthe red clo- 

 ver in his meadow had during last year nearly destroyed 

 the timothy, evidently on account of that grass being more 

 prevalent in that extraordinary season than the timothy. 

 Another gentleman informed me that the frost in the spring 

 so completely killed the apple, that the consequence 

 was a total failure of the fruit, but to his surprise, in 

 the month of August, the trees blossomed and brought 

 forth fruit, which grew to the size of hen's eggs, and was 



