It may be useful in this place to give an outline of the man- 

 ner in which it may be desirable to conduct the inquiries. I 

 will take for examples, Wheat and Indian Corn. 



Wheat. 



1. History of its Cultivation in the State. 



2. Kinds ; bearded or bald ; flint or soft skin ; red or white ; 

 summer or winter ; where obtained ; by what name or quality 

 designated ; average weight per bushel. 



3. Amount of any particular crop ; extent of land sown. 



4. Condition of the land ; nature of the soil ; whether newly 

 cleared; burnt; swarded; or how used for two or three years 

 previously ; how prepared for sowing. 



5. Kind and quantity of manure ; use of lime ; plaster, or 

 any compost manure. 



6. The quantity of seed to an acre, and preparation of the 

 seed ; advantages or evils of steeping the seed. 



7. The time of sowing ; week and day, if possible to be as- 

 certained. The importance of such an inquiry as this will ap- 

 pear for the reasons which follow : 



It is strongly recommended that wheat should be sown before 

 tlie 14th of September, so as to be well rooted before winter; 

 thus atfording a better protection against frosts. Or else so late 

 as not to germinate before spring ; this method has been tried 

 Or frozen in water in the autumn and kept so until the spring, 

 which experiment is reported to have been successful. It is 

 often desirable for wheat to follow Indian corn ; but Indian 

 corn in general cannot be taken off in season to get the wheat 

 sown. The discovery of any mode, such as the above for ex- 

 ample, by which the necessity of this early sowing could be ob- 

 viated, would be of great advantage. 



Wheat sown early is more likely to have passed beyond injury 

 from the hot, damp, steaming weather, wiiich occurs in July and 

 occasions rust. Query ; whether late sown wlieat is not likely 

 to pass beyond that season before it gets into a condition to be 

 injured, which is while it is in the milk. 



Late sowing of wheat, as in some cases the last of May and 

 the hrst of June, it is stated, has carried the season of flowering 



