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plants having been totally destroyed,) and set it in spring 

 grain. The wheat has sedged with me in corn field 

 ground, as well as in clover lays and old field fallow, — 

 in one as bad as the other. No remedy for this has ever 

 come to my knowledge. 



Having purchased some land adjoining my farm last 

 year, it became necessary to alter the laying off my farm 

 and I was compelled to sacrifice a crop of young clover, 

 which I had sowed this spring twelve months, to bring 

 my fields into the rotation contemplated ; this clover was 

 sowed on a wheat fallow, and of course my corn was 

 planted on the stubble of this field ; it is very free from 

 the worm. The crops of my neighbours, planted in the 

 old pasture fields, are very much injured by the cut 

 worm ; and I am informed, that the best chance to en- 

 sure a crop of corn, is to plant in the stubble fields : the 

 standing of my crop seems to prove that fact. I always 

 tar my corn, and roll it in plaster, and never failed till 

 last year, in making a crop ; my failure then was occa- 

 sioned by the backwardness of the spring season, and the 

 early setting in of the frost. Immense quantities of corn 

 were destroyed last year by the early frost. Tarring and 

 plastering will certainly prevent the birds from pulling it 

 up, and thus ensure the first planting to stand. I am 

 anxious to have a description of the wheat, called Jones's 

 white wheat, said to withstand the attack of the fly ; and 

 would esteem it a favour, if you could ascertain the 

 truth of the statement lately published, stating it to have 

 been brought into Virginia by a man of the name of 

 Lawler, from Chester county, Pennsylvania. I want 

 faith, after the many kinds I have tried, of any particular 

 kind of wheat being exempt. If you can give me any 



