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Mr. Bogle, without contesting these points, 

 urges the scheme of propagating wheat by 

 dividing and transplanting its roots. " I 

 have conversed," says he, " much with many 

 practical farmers, who all admit that my plan 

 has the appearance not only of being practi- 

 cal but advantageous. I have also seen in 

 the 9th number of Mr. Youngs Annals of 

 Agriculture, the account of an experiment, 

 which strongly corroborates my theory. It 

 was made by the Rev. Mr. Pike, of Edmon- 

 ton. From this, and other experiments which 

 have been made under my own eye, I fore- 

 see clearly, that the system is practicable, 

 and will certainly be productive of great be- 

 nefit, should it become general. Besides the 

 saving of nine tenths of seed in the land 

 sown broad-cast, other very important ad- 

 vantages will attend the setting out of wheat 

 from a seed-bed : such as an early crop ; the 

 certainty of good crops ; rendering a summer 

 fallow unnecessary; saving dung; and having 

 your wheat perfectly free from weeds, with- 

 out either hand or horse-hoeing; five hundred 

 plants in April produced almost a bushel of 

 grain. My gardener says, he can set one 

 thousand plants in a day, which is confirmed 

 by the opinion of two other gardeners." 



