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ordinary trouble and definition by birds were 

 equally avoided. 



The produce of thefc forty yards was two 

 and a half gallons, weighing twenty pounds 

 and a half, of prime grain fie for feed, be- 

 fides fome pounds of feconds. One grain 

 produced thirty-five ears, yielding twelve 

 hundred and thirty-five grains. 



The fecond year's produce being fufficient 

 to plant an acre of ground, the variety was 

 of courfe fufficiently eftablifhed. 



This, the fifth year, I have feen it grow in 

 quantity ; but the feafon being moift, and the 

 foil good, it was moft of it lodged, The 

 crop upon the ground is abundant : fe- 

 venty full ftiocks an acre. But the produce 

 of Zealand wheat in the fame piece is equal 

 to it ; and, on examination, I think the grain 

 of this is better, its (kin is fomewhat thinner. 

 Neverthelefs, the variety under notice may 

 rank with the firil of the prefent day. For 

 nn inferior foil it may perhaps be found 

 fuperiorly eligible *, 



B 4 Its 



* It is obfcrvable, that the quality of this rariety 

 improvn. Its colour and fkinr this year, notwith- 

 ftanding the unfavourable aefs of the feafon, are finer 

 than they were the laft and the preceding years. 



