^^ Remarks on different Grains, 



acres. Cold and unfavourable springs have, for seve- 

 ral years past, retarded the early shooting of the plants, 

 and in such case they do not stool as formerly. 



In the beginning of the last April, I harrowed my 

 wheat field, except that part on which I had sown peas. 

 The benefit of this operation was surprising to those 

 not accustomed to it. The stubble will now show the 

 last stroke of the harrow. I have practiced this hereto- 

 fore, and never failed to profit by it. But I cannot per- 

 suade my own tenants to harrow even one acre. I 

 could scarcely prevail on my ploughman to perform 

 this highly beneficial operation ; which at length he 

 consented to, under a protestando, that he should lose 

 no credit by my failure, as he had remonstrated against 

 it. He has now changed his opinion. My timothy^ 

 sown with the wheat, was denounced, as devoted to 

 ruin. But this prophecy has completely failed. I re- 

 pent that I had not harrowed a part of my pea ground, 

 as I now attribute its inferiority to its not having been 

 harrowed. 



Last year I planted (for the first time) some curious 

 Indian-corn ; having ears of a deep red, and stalks and 

 leaves with a cover, like silk or fine linen dipped in 

 blood of a deep tinge. The stalks and leaves will dye 

 a durable deep red, inclining to purple. This corn, 

 again planted, has, this season, discoloured, or tinged 

 and spotted a great part of the corn of my garden and 

 field ; though kept at a great distance from the corn 

 in other parts. This effect is more striking than I have 

 been accustomed to, but it is not new to me. What 

 surprises me, however, is, that, in the ground in which 



