wheat. 58] 



Antoine, at Paris, wheat which had been 

 steeped in vegetable liquor, produce from 

 sixty to eighty ears each. We may therefore 

 conclude, that the moistening the grain 

 opened the conduits of the genii, and ren- 

 dered them more ready to receive nourish- 

 fluent." This author says, that in France a 

 bushel of wheat sown in indifferent land, is 

 calculated to yield two or three bushels, in 

 good soil eight or ten, in superior lands 

 twelve, and in extraordinary ground fifteen. 



The method of feeding off young wheal 

 with sheep was practised by the ancients, as 

 Virgil has informed us 



" Luxuriem segetum tenera depascitin herba." 



M. Duhainel, the zealous promoter of 

 agriculture in France, recommended parti- 

 cularly to his countrymen to adopt the prac- 

 tice of drilling wheat, as is the custom in 

 England, (which is now become the ureal 

 school of agriculture.) This enlightened au- 

 thor states, that corn sown after this manner 

 will produce one-third more, and sometimes 

 double the quantity of grain to that which 

 is sown in the ordinary manner. 



Wheat is subject to a variety of maladies 

 that no human prudence can prevent, one o( 



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