8 WHEAT. i. 



Its intrinfic value, however, would not have 

 been a fufficient inducement for defcribing 

 the circumftances of its rife, had not thefe 

 circumftances pointed out at the fame time 

 the practicability, as well as an eafy and fpeedy 

 method of raifing new varieties, and of improving 

 thole which are already known. 



What deters Farmers from improvements 

 of this nature, is principally the mifchievouf- 

 nefs of BIRDS ; from which at harveft it is 

 fcarcely poffiole to preferve a fmall patch of 

 corn, efpedally in a garden or other ground 

 fituatcd near a habitation. But by carrying on 

 the improvement in * field of corn of the fame 

 ?ia:u r e 9 that inconveniency is got rid of. 



In th's fituarion, however, the lotanift will 

 be apprcher.five of danger from the floral 

 farina of the nirrounJing crop. But, from 

 what obfervation I h.ive made, I am of 

 opinion his fears will prove ground lefs. No 

 evil effect of this nature occurred in the in- 

 llancc above iccited, although the cultivation 

 has been carried on among white wheat. But 

 this nef.cl nor be brought as an evidence : it 

 is not uncommon here to fow a mixture of 

 red and wb:te wheats together, and this, it is 



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