26 Remarks on different Grains. 



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from the colouring matter, though slightly tinged, pass- 

 es without notice. The next season I must change the 

 seed of all my corn, by procuring it from distant farm- 

 ers. 



Yours, very truly, 



Richard Peters. 

 Dr. James Mease, 



Secretary^ PhiL Agric. Soe, 



July 15, 1812. No. 1. The Smyrna wheat is now 

 ripe, and fit for the sickle. It is a fair promising crop, 

 and has withstood the storms and unfavourable season, 

 for beyond any other grain. The harvest is later, at 

 least ten days, than it has been for many years past. 



No. 2. The big rye, I have lost this crop ; and am 

 not a little mortified. It was sown too late, owing to a 

 gross mistake of my farmer, who sowed the wheat- 

 barley instead of the rye. Having no other ground pre- 

 pared, I was obliged to sacrifice the barley, and in its 

 place sowed the rye, in the second week of November. 

 Still it would have done well in a common season. 

 But a violent storm of hail and heavy rain, broke the 

 stalks, and prostrated the greatest part of it. I shall 

 perhaps have a few bushels, some tolerably good, but 

 most of it shrivelled. If Sir Joseph Banks's doctrine 

 be true, my shrivelled grain will continue the species. 

 I expected a quantity from France. But Mr. Parker 

 informs me, that he had but a pint to begin with ; and 

 this was found in the knapsack of a dead French sol- 

 dier, who had traversed various regions, in his cam- 

 paigns. It is not known in what country he found it. 



