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On the Effects of the Season on Crops : on Fall Plough- 

 wg, and Lime-shells as a Manure, by John . idlum, Esq. 



Read Feb. llth, 1817. 



The Cottage near George 7 own, 

 Z) e C. Jan. 21st, 1817. 



Dear Sir, 



The last season, I think, was the most extraordinary lever 



witnessed, and although i did not actually see the fro^t on 

 the cold mornings; I observed after the sun appeared some- 

 time, the sweet potato vines, with the melon, cm -umber and 

 lima beans, appeared in a degree scorched The leaves were 

 not quite killed, but had a white or bleached appearance, 

 and they were most injured where mo^t sheltered from 

 the wind and current of air The weather was so cold 

 that the corn continued much longer than usual in its 

 roasthig-ear state ; a few hills that 1 planted in my garden, 

 -erd of which came from the West-Indies, were 

 about six weeks in their roasting-ear state before the frost 

 killed it. 



:..'!'' i n corn generally in this neighbourhood was 



bad and . in the same bove-m< , ; for 



very little mdtfe than half of it ripened. 1 &.d not pull 

 my field corn until sometime in December, near th< 



