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coarse Jicclvl^. By this alter?iate use of the swingling^ 

 ktuTe, and lieckle. most of tlie woody fragments, tilers 

 called shive or sbivei?, are ^ot out, part of the tow or 

 broken filament removed, and the article got into a 

 ptafc, lit for the Flax dresser and folded into bundles 

 for sale, 



FrankliK; 



Wheat has for many 3-ears been a verj" considerable ar- 

 ticle of husbandry in the United States. Its impori- 

 ance is daily becumin^ more manifest — the culture of 

 Tobacco is every where giving way to it. — It must, 

 Ihereforf, be highly advantageous to the Farmer to 

 ohtain every information that will tend to render his 

 labours most effectual. With this view the followins: 

 letter and cbservalioas on the diseases of yvheat; Jir© 

 selected fron the Farmers Magazine. 



ON THE DISEASES OF WHEAT, 



SIR 



The unfiiyorable idea eniertained by Sir John Sin» 

 clair, in the result of his inquiries respecting the 

 ^ausc? of mildew and other diseases in wheat, in so 

 far as the same are attributed to the heavy manuring 

 and full seeding of the ground, occasions me to trouble 

 you with this lette^*. 



It may justly be considered as a truism, that he wlio 

 sows sparingly, will reap sparingly; and wliatever 

 ideas may be entertained, in theory, respecting muck, 

 it has, in practice, been invariably found the great 

 desideratum for rendering fields permanently fertile. 

 Lime, marl, shelly s^nd, and vill calcarous substances, 

 tiavc powerful effects on their first application; but when 

 repeated, unless accompanied with vegetable manure., 

 p?-nve but feeble em ichei-s of exhausted ground; and ac- 

 cordingly, it i'; an object of the first importance with 

 every jjraciicrJ farmer, to increase the quantity, and. 

 impiove thf> (juality of this mo^t v.aluable artide, as 



