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6. Tf Indian com is cultivated to a considerabre extent^ 

 it usually sutfers at harvest. The harvest of the for- 

 ward wheat is over, when the corn is yet yo .ng, and 

 therefore recoverable; whereas it often happens, that it 

 sustains irretrievable injury, by arriving at an advanced 

 state, during the neglect incident to the latter harvest. 

 This also produces a pressure of time, forcing the husf 

 bandman to work his corn in improper seasons, so as 

 greatly to diminish the crop. 



7. When potatoes, or other vegetables, vi'hich are ga- 

 thered late in the fall, are used as a fallow crop, the re- 

 pugnancy of this wheat to the rust must be highly re- 

 couunendiitory ; because late sowings are ever most 

 liable to this misfortune. 



With respect to the strav^', which, including the fod- 

 der, is inferior in quantity more than one third, to that of 

 other wheat, it occurs lo observe, 



1. That this circu'nstance produces a saving of at 

 least one third of the labour, of cutting — gathering up- 

 carting — stacking — and threshing. 



3. That the wheat never lodges. 



3. That it may alm^dst in every instance, be cut by th4 

 scythe. 



4. That the straw is not liable to be damaged by th6 

 rust. 



5. That the grain, before and afler the wheat is cut, 

 is not liable to an equal risque from rain, with the latter 

 wheat, because the straw dies faster, and is gotten ia 

 sooner. 



It will be objected, that this circumstance diminishes 

 the great fund for manure. To this it is answered, that 

 the straw is only an oflal of the crop. That no crop can 

 be cultivated for the sake of the otfal. T at the impo- 

 verishment of the soil by the growth of straw is ppoba- 

 h\y regulated by the quantity produced. That this ar. 

 gument unites with the reasons before given, to sustain 

 an inference, that it will require the whole surplus of 

 straw, produced by the latter wheat, to repair its siuplua 

 cf injury to the soil. bc\ond the ftuwauk Ai.u ihi:*. 



