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product, twenty-five and a half, twenty-six and a half, and twenty-seven 

 bushels, at 12 shillings per bushel : the flax ground producing the 

 most. The spring wheat ground was near the house, and I attributed 

 a loss on account of the fowls. The straw on the barley stubble was 

 coarse and harsh ; on flax stubble, fine and soft. This has since been 

 in nneadow, with a yearly product of two and a half and three tons per 

 acre. I might multiply facts, but let these suffice, with one other, in 

 regard to the use of plaster on corn. In 1832, I plastered with Cayu- 

 ga plaster, a field of corn, excepting- a few rows on one side of the 

 field. This was done as soon as the rows could be distinguished. Ax 

 the first dressing, the plastered corn was largest ; ten days subse- 

 quently it was dressed again, when that which had not been plastered 

 was about the size of the plastered at the Jirst dressing. There was 

 a similar difference throughout the season* At harvest, that not plas- 

 tered produced seven and a half baskets ; and the same number of 

 rows of the plastered, produced fourteen baskets, picked and measured 

 by the same man. The care was the same, except the plaster, I 

 send you a box containing a few specimens of wheat and foul seeds 

 found on most of our farms. The wheat was raised by myself this 

 season, and is a fair specimen of the entire crop of each variety. I 

 send also two specimens of barley. It may be thought folly to send 

 foul seeds for exhibition. The fact is, seedmen buy seed filled with 

 every thing but what it should contain, not knov\^ing what they pur- 

 chase. I will give a description hereafter, if desired. Many more 

 varieties might be collected, which trouble us much, and sometimes 

 smother entire fields of wheat. 



