Oil Grass Lat/s, Mamires, ^c. 



servation and reflection, necessary ingredients, in the 

 composition of their business, millions of bushels of 

 wheat might have been grown, which have been en- 

 thely lost, from a deficiency of seed. But even a loss 

 like this, has not been sufficient to awaken those men, 

 who conceive they inherit from their fathers, the same 

 fee simple in the knowledge of agriculture, as they ac- 

 quired from their will or death, in their estates, al- 

 though if they had acted wisely, the manuring of their 

 grounds would not have been the only advantage de- 

 rived, from this potent insect, for before their depre- 

 dations, wheat was sown very early, and where the soil 

 was tolerably good, a trivial quantity sufficed ; for the 

 plants tillered very profusely in our prolific climate ; 

 where copious showers, succeeded by a clear sky and 

 an animating sun, are peculiarly favourable to vegeta- 

 tion. But since this supposed calamity, wheat has 

 been sown later, and the same quantity of seed gene- 

 rally continued, although farmers might have seen that 

 less vegetated, more plants were killed by frost, and 

 that they tillered less ; and that all those deficiencies 

 increased in due proportion, as the season had advanc- 

 ed previous to seeding ; of consequence, when farm- 

 ers will be persuaded to sow a sufficiency of seed, to 

 introduce the same number of stems, as were formerly 

 grown, from very early sown wheat, they will obtain 

 as good crops as were formerly grown, and probably 

 much better : for they will introduce many more plants 

 than were produced from early seeding, and the same 

 number of stems, nourished by many more original 

 roots, each proceeding from its own grain, which will 

 certainly be much more productive, than the same 



