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OCTOBER 16. (SeeMiN. 13.) To endea- WHEAT. 

 vour to afcertain the truth of this opinion, 

 J had a fmall bufli of the lerbery 'plant fer, 

 in February or March laft, in the middle of a 

 large piece of wheat. 



I neglected to make any obfervations upon 

 it until a little before harveft ; when a neigh- 

 bour (Mr. John Baker, of South-RepsJ came 

 to tell me of the effedt it had produced. 



The wheat was then changing, and the reft 

 -of the piece (about twenty acres) had acquired 

 a considerable degree of whitenefs (white 

 wheat) ; while about the berbery bufh there 

 appeared a long, but fomewhat oval-fliaped, 

 flripe, of a dark livid colour, obvious to a 

 perfon riding on the road at a confiderable 

 diflance. 



The part afFeacd refembled the tail of a 

 comet, the bufh itfelf reprefenting the nu- 



damp upon the cultivation of a valuable object of rural 

 economy, which will not readily be removed. And I 

 flatter myfelf that the expedients, here regiftercd, for 

 checking or removing jthe evil, will not be lei's ufeful to 

 the agricultor, than 9 fedulous adduction of ftufts, re- 

 lative to the migration and propagation of infects, will be 

 intercfting to the admiicrs of the economy of nature. 



A a 4 - cleus; 



