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On Tangier Wheat. 



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 Br andywine Mills, 1 lino. 10, 1816 



My Friend, 



I have observed in a newspaper of Wilmington, a 

 notice that the Agricultural Society were desirous of ob- 

 taining information on certain particulars relative to the 

 past uncommon season, and that thy name is given as the 

 person we are to communicate with. 



As the Society was pleased last year to send me a small 

 quantity of rye of an uncommon quality, I distributed it 

 among four farmers of Pennsylvania, four of New Jersey, 

 four of Delaware, and one in Maryland, an ounce to each - 

 desiring them to inform me particularly in relation to it 

 (agreeably to the enclosed copy of a letter accompanying 

 each parcel. ) I have heard from very few of those to 

 whom the rye was sent ; principally, 1 apprehend, be- 

 cause the seed generally perished in the ground, and no 

 further notice of it was thought necessary. With two or 

 three persons it succeeded so far that they have obtained, 

 some a few grains, and in one instance, a farmer in New 

 Jersey, on Denniss's creek, has obtained about an ounce ? 

 from which he brought me the small quantity enclosed, 

 with a head of the rye also enclosed. 



In time, perhaps, this grain may be naturalized to our 



