beyond the the time of tlie wheat insect, and the crop has been 

 saved. 



8. The diseases or accidents, if any : whether aiTected by rust, 

 smut, or mildew ; and any circumstances of weather, situation, 

 or particular condition of the plant connected or contemporane- 

 ous with such occurrence. The situation or exposure of any 

 blighted field, whether high and airy, or low, damp, and confined. 



9. Whether or not affected by the vicinity of barberry bushes. 



10. Whether winter killed or not; under what circumstances 

 as it regards the forwardness or lateness of the plant ; and how 

 affected by the snow. 



11. Whether attacked by the Hessian fly or other insects ; 

 and preventives, if any. 



Wheat is, in many parts of the country, subject to injury 

 from an insect or worm, whose appearance is comparatively re- 

 cent ; and whose habits are not well ascertained. He is mak- 

 ing dreadful havoc in the wheat regions, producing in many 

 cases, an entire destruction of extensive fields of tiie most prom- 

 ising appearance ; and has advanced at the rate of about forty 

 miles a year. The same insect, it is believed, though the iden- 

 tity is not perfectly ascertained, has attacked barley, rye, and 

 oats with alarming success. The cultivation of barley has on 

 this account been abandoned in Bome parts of the State ; and 

 so has the cultivation of wheat in what have heretofore been 

 deemed some of the most productive wheat regions in New York. 



Inquiries and experiments on this subject are of immense im- 

 portance. A perfect preventive or security would be worth 

 millions to the country. 



12. Remedies or protection against blight, or other accident. 



13. The extirpation of weeds particularly injurious to the 

 wheat crop, such as tares, cockle, chess, garlic, and the Canada 

 thistle; and any machinery by which the grain may be cleansed 

 of " foul stuff." 



14. The experience of farmers in the cultivation of wheat 

 crops successively on the same land ; and in sowing clover with 

 jhe wheat with a view to ploughing it in as manure for a suc- 

 ceeding crop ; and whether customarily ploughed in with the 

 stubble ; or depastured ; or mowed for one or more years. 



15. The general subject of sowing grass with grain; and the 

 value in such case of a stubble crop for winter fodder. 



